Flipping a new house worth it vs. doing normal jobs?

[kenbcn]

Hi,

I just started playing House Flipper.
Maybe someone can give me a couple of tips on how sell a house you just flipped and obtain a good profit.

As I said I am new to this game, and so far I completed only two houses, and my revenue has been 7K and 6K respectively. I have spent an average of two hours per house: cleaned, painted, did the floors, lightning, furniture, plumbing, accessories, decoration...the whole thing... the houses I have to say looked pretty awesome and I tailored them to the buyers needs to the point where they had no complaints.

How is it that after all this I turn such a small profit?

I was really looking forward to working on houses rather than jobs but this is discouraging.

[Nemesys9999]

If it's profit you're after, the best way to make money is to build a big house on an empty lot. It can bring in several million at a time (even if you don't do any decoration/work inside).

[Jaunitta 🌸]

Did you do a job or buy house?
As your perks have reached 100% in all gives you the ability to negoiate and sell houses for more.
Keep playing and buying , until you have done all jobs in all DLC then start buying.
Once you have bought all the houses and sold them then any house is now available to buy again and again.
Note if you want reach a particular family have a look at their likes and dislikes. Aim for their perks and likes.
Buyers are under the Laptop screen.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2460729628
If your bored with a house just sell it and buy another.
There will houses that can bring huge profits but are also expensive.
They start appearing in the Luxury DLC.

[Lilykatze]

The bigger the house, the more profit! If you need more money, get the biggest house you can afford. Cleaning and removing trash gives you the most additional profit. Make sure that every room registers as a certain room type. If you have empty rooms (just being called "room"), add a cheap bed so it becomes a "bedroom". This way, you can make money FAST which is why money actually isn't an issue in this game ;). The flipping part with painting, decorations and loads of creative freedom is the actual fun part! And that can easily be done moneywise by doing what I described :).

[dark_haunt]

For the smaller houses at the start of the game, try to keep to main furniture items and official game items, rather than adding a lot of small or cheap decorative items. They won't add a lot of value or profit to the house. Also, make sure the house's contents are aimed at a particular buyer. The comments on the buyers tab in the in-game tablet will help, but it fills as you sell houses so there won't be much information there at the beginning. There are buyer guides here on Steam that might be more helpful to you. Also, if you have the Gardens DLC, make sure you do a garden contest. You can earn more profit that way.

[kenbcn]

Thanks a lot for the answers everyone! :)

[jannetin82]

I have started doing something, Lost interest while I have a house that had all interiors removed, 4 or 5 walls built back in, Windows and doors moved around. made 50k+ profit.

I have also spend well over 7 hours to "perfect" some house, maybe not to any exact buyer, but to as I liked. Sold it with -6000 loss.

I did build a house for every buyer in mind, Some I had to take few tries (That student was hard to get.) but apart from those, I have never built for any specific buyer.
I tend to build houses that I would like to live in, or houses that I would imagine someone would like to live in, And build based on that.

Every buyer always complains about something, sometimes the profit is very low. but I see that as rather irrelevant.
Yet I still have well over 10 million to splash around.

[LieutenantBaconWaffles]

When I got the Farm DLC, it unlocked the Foundation tool. Adding more buildings or rooms to a plot of land exponencially increaces the value. My starter office sold for over 100k. I think it's the only time you can spend more money on a renovation than you spent on the house itself & still walk away with a proft instead of a loss. Doing this, I was able to renovate the 3 cheapest houses in the game & afterwards I could afford the Castle, which is one of the most expencive houses.

The Garden DLC helps too. If you follow a guide & get 100% on a guarden competition, it can increase your house sale by 50%.

If you have none of the DLC, I do believe that creating more rooms increases a house's value while open concept houses seem to annoy buyers. I think a sauna also brings the value up. Most buyers like it when you have more bathrooms & more bedrooms than what you started out with.