Bigger profit?

[easypeesy]

i see people say not to waste my time with the small jobs and just primarily buy and flip houses but- and I've only flipped two houses so far, I only made like 5-10 grand in profit in house flipping. I've made almost 20 grand in the small jobs. So like, what am i doing wrong? Like do I just have to wait to afford bigger houses where I can put saunas in and sh!t? Am I not making the houses pretty enough? Buying the wrong things? idk help please.

[Nemesys9999]

You need to do the jobs because they are unlocking new houses ! (94 in total if I remember well - dlcs included)

For the profit, it depends on wich dlcs you have.
By example, you can add up to 50% to a house selling price with a garden.
And with the building tool, building the biggest new house you can on a empty lot (I just built 3 floors, add a door and 3 staircases - no windows/furniture/decoration/garden/inner walls and I made several millions profit - like 4-5 millions).

Maybe you're making too much of the houses. Most of the time, I just clean them up (keep the furniture as is) and just fix the walls and electricty (so I don't have any red spot on the map anymore), paint the walls, mow the lawn and that's it.
Except if you want to sell to a specific buyer, but then you're not on a profit logic anymore.

[dark_haunt]

Some of the jobs unlock houses and tools. They are also your main source of income at the start of the game and you can level up most of your skills completely (or close to) while doing them. The skills are important because they help to keep the cost of flipping down (you can save on paint usage) & can increase profit (negotiation). Most players do all of the jobs first, then start flipping houses when they have enough money to be able to afford a few without needing to worry about making a profit.

The best profit will come when you flip a house in a way that one of the buyers approves of completely. That means their comments in the auction are all green, no red. Their comments are copied onto their profiles in the buyers' section of the store area (access the store, there are tabs along the bottom, Buyers is one of them) and accumulate as you sell houses until you have collected all of them for each buyer. If you can't wait for that, however, there is also a guide to the buyers in the guides section here on Steam. Each buyer has different likes and dislikes, including style, certain types of furniture and specific types of rooms. Yes, there is also a guide to room types. Most of those are out of date as the requirements sometimes change, however they should give you some idea, at least.

It's also a good idea to not put too much time and effort into the houses, so you don't get too attached to them, as you can't keep any of them the first time you flip them. If you do all of the jobs (to 100%) and buy, flip, then sell every house available once (so you only have whatever house you're using as your office at that point), you will achieve the main goal of the game and unlock all of the houses to buy as many times as you wish. Until then, you can only buy each house once.

Nemesys9999 mentioned the garden contest if you have Gardens DLC. There are guides about the garden contests, also. Look for one about cheap crop gardens, in particular. They're the best type for the smaller houses as they're cheap enough to not use up the full prize bonus before it's earned.