[upbeat music]
- [Narrator] For over six seasons,
the Zombie House flip teams
have been searching the neighborhoods of America
for desolated and abandoned homes
to bring back to their former glory.
- [Ashlee] Whoa, this is hideous.
- [Justin] It looks like they had a bonfire.
- [Narrator] From animal- infested disasters.
- There's a [bleep] dead raccoon.
- [Ashlee] Oh my God, we're gonna get rabies.
- [Narrator] To big money makers.
- More profit than we've ever seen in our whole life.
- [Narrator] Staying on budget and on time
has always been the least of their worries.
- [Keith] Oh no! [glass shatters]
- Holy [bleep]!
This is a freaking nightmare.
- [Narrator] Now we're taking a look back
at some of the most unforgettable flips
from the past season. [Keith cheers]
- What is that? - Oh my God.
This is starting to feel like a bad investment
and I'm over it.
- [Justin] But now look at it.
- Damn. - Incredible.
- [Ashlee] Unbelievable. - [Keith] So spacious.
- [Narrator] This is Zombie House Flipping,
back to the flip, "Risky Ren-Oh!"
[funky music]
In this special edition of Zombie House,
we'll revisit two flips
that spelled risky business
even for these experienced flippers.
Up first, a zombie project that has the team ready
to put up a condemned sign due to its many glaring problems.
But one zombie hunter is willing to prove
that this will be a profitable venture,
worth the risk.
- [Ashlee] Look how pretty this is.
- [Justin] This is a nice neighborhood.
- It's all nice and shady and tree lined back here.
- Oh look, that's a bit of a zombie right there.
We are heading to Winter Park
to check out a zombie that Duke found.
- I mean, it's great in this neighborhood
because there's so many houses
that are like straight up time capsules still.
You know, the family's lived in 'em
since they built them in the fifties and sixties.
- So this house we're going to is like that.
But what happened was some flippers bought it
and they demoed most of the stuff inside.
They started doing their project and all.
And I guess these flippers flopped.
This zombie I found is different
from most of the houses we do.
It was already begun by some flippers,
who quit the job midway through.
And that could save us a lot of money
if some of the work is already completed for us.
- Yeah, so the house is somewhere up here.
- Oh, wow. - Oh, here it is, look.
- [Keith] There we go, look at that.
- Flippers obviously didn't touch the outside.
- Not too pretty from this side.
- Oh my God.
[music strikes]
- [Keith] This looks awful. [scary music]
- This is kind of cool.
- I like it.
- I got a creepy vibe about this place.
- [Ashlee] Creepy vibe? - Yeah, straight away.
- You know how hard it is to get a deal.
These flippers wanna sell this thing.
- We gotta figure out why they wanna sell it.
- Yeah. - Either they're fools
or we're the sucker, so let's see.
- Yeah, there's a sucker here somewhere.
- We don't know why the other flippers bailed on this house.
They could have run outta money.
They could have found something that was too big
and too expensive for them to fix.
Or maybe they just got in over their heads.
Regardless of the reason,
I think we need to be extra critical
when looking at this house
to make sure we don't make the same mistake they did.
- [Ashlee] Looks like it needs windows, roof, maybe.
- A bunch of rot under that soffit right there.
- [Keith] Yeah, yeah.
Dude, look at this yard.
This yard looks like the Sonoran Desert or something.
- It's already been graded for landscaping.
You gotta see the bright side of life, the bright side.
- This is dirt, this is sand.
- [Ashlee] Total sand. - Whatever.
- This could be turned into a two car garage, easily enough.
- [Duke] Yeah.
- [Justin] Ready to do this? - [Ashlee] Yeah.
[intense music builds]
- [Duke] Half the demo was done, man, come on.
- [Justin] Look at this.
- Half the work has already been finished.
- All right, let's just put a for sale sign in the yard.
Let's do this. - Slight touches needed.
- We usually don't see this
when we walk into a zombie house.
There's already been a lot of work done here
and that's a definite plus.
- [Ashlee] Oh, look, they had plans.
- And they're signed off on.
- Wow, look at that.
Just only a few months ago, wow.
- Alright, so this is like a mystery.
Why did these guys walk away
after doing so much work to get this far?
Alright, let's figure out if this house has got problems
or if those flippers were the ones that failed.
- [Justin] All right.
- [Ashlee] I think so far they've had problems.
- Okay, so this is the bedroom.
- [Ashlee] It's nice and huge.
- [Duke] Yeah, windows,
there's some French doors going out back.
- This is a toilet that's gonna be a tub.
They want a tub here, the toilet goes there now,
on their plan with a little door going into it,
with its own closet.
- Wait, the toilet doesn't go here on their plans?
- No, it goes there, look.
- Look, there's another bathroom over here.
- Either the blueprints we inherited from these flippers
aren't right or they didn't know how to read 'em.
But the house isn't built right
and that means a whole lot more work for us.
Oh my God.
- This is someone else's vision.
Maybe these chopped up plans are leading us astray.
- Okay, so guys, that's, wait guys, hold up.
That's my whole point,
is that it looks like everything's done,
but, to me, it looks like nothing's been done.
It looks good on the surface,
but as soon as we go to sleep at night,
all those little problems
are gonna jump outta the horse and knife us.
It's gonna cost us a ton in the end.
[door rattles loudly]
- [Ashlee] Stop doing that. - The door is stuck.
- Look at this, a sauna, oh no, a hot tub.
- [Justin] Oh great, at least you get a spa.
- How do we get it outta here?
- Yeah, you might need to saw that thing in half.
[Justin imitates chainsaw]
- [Ashlee] Look at this gorgeous pool, wow.
- [Duke] Yeah, gorgeous?
- Come on, it's fabulous.
- Go ahead and jump in, Ashlee.
- It's huge.
- The Loch Ness monster wouldn't swim in this thing.
- Once this pool is cleaned up, it's gonna look amazing
and it's gonna up our ARV with hardly any effort.
So Duke and Keith need to stop moaning about this house
and start looking at all the pluses.
What's back here?
- [Duke] So what do we have back here?
More Backyard?
- It's not a backyard, this is a dog run.
- [Ashlee] You guys are real naysayers today.
- No, I'm just getting bad vibes here.
- Keith. - I like this house.
- Whenever Keith has bad vibes, I say go for it.
[everyone laughs]
- Hey, they can laugh all they want,
but if we buy this house,
there's not gonna be anything funny
about all the work that we have to re-do.
- The house has its pros and cons, okay.
Obviously, nothing is easy
or else someone else would snap it up.
- The problem is someone else did snap it up
and then now they're getting rid of it.
- Yeah, it's gonna wind up being a lot more work
than we think it's gonna be.
We're gonna have to undo the stuff that they did do badly.
And we're basically building a new house.
- Sounds like a flip, sounds like a zombie.
- It's listed at 175. Listen, what's your budget?
- The budget, honestly, is 80 or 85.
- We could probably do it for 60.
I mean, a lot of the demo's done.
There's already drywall here that hopefully we can reuse.
- And listen, the ARV is probably 330 to 350, even.
- [Keith] I think this is a mistake in action.
- The market's tight, I'm not gonna let this deal go.
I'm gonna take this one personally.
You guys don't have to be- - What?
- Yeah, you guys don't have to be involved.
- So you're gonna oversee the whole thing?
- I'll do the entire thing.
- I think we should pass on this house,
but if Justin feels that strongly about it,
I think we should support him.
So we're gonna fund this house as a group,
but Justin's gonna do all the work by himself.
I just hope he can handle it.
- [Justin] We were able to grab this "mid-flip"
for $200,000.
Since a lot of the work has already been done.
I think we can get away with a $60,000 rehab,
bringing our all in costs to $260,000.
If we're able to get top dollar for this house at $350,000,
that'll bring the team's profit to $90,000.
I don't know why Keith and Duke
are dragging their feet on this one.
- [Narrator] The house already has blueprints,
so the team would just need
to finish building out the kitchen,
and keep it a nice open, airy, bright space
that leads to the nearby family room.
The bedrooms just need new walls and fixtures.
And then both the bathrooms
will be given mid-century inspired accents
and top-of-the-line fixtures.
Outside, they'll close in the carport
to make a fully- functioning garage.
And out back, that murky pool will be transformed
into a mid-century oasis,
- Since there's no demo on this house,
it's my job as captain of this ship to meet with Charlie,
the contractor, and come up with a game plan
so that we can knock this house out
and show the team how wrong they were
for not jumping on board.
Are you ready for this?
- Yeah, I'm ready.
Let's see what we got.
[scary music strikes]
- The people were renovating this house,
I don't know what went wrong.
I just know there's a lot of weird quirky stuff
that isn't done correctly.
- Correctly, I see some right here.
Look at the rat wire.
This ain't no good.
No, no, no.
You need to change your wiring.
- The entire house?
- Entire house, change it all, change it all.
- What's up with this beam? - You can't move it.
This stops right here, it needs to go all the way across
'cause that's your main support right there.
That's why that beam's there.
- Whew. - You want some more bad news?
All this drywall's gotta come off.
- Why is that? - No insulation.
- All right, there might be some more issues here
than I thought, but I still think this is a good investment
and I know there's some positives
lurking around here somewhere.
Charlie, what are we talking about,
hitting the reset button on this?
- Hell, you're 10 grand, easy.
- Oh Lord, this has been fun.
Justin still believes this flip
can bring in some serious cash.
So he braces himself for the risky task
of doing it all alone,
hoping there is light at the end of the tunnel.
- After meeting with Charlie, the contractor,
it's looking like there's a lot more work here
than we thought.
I mean, we're gonna spend half of our time
just undoing the problems
that the previous flippers had done.
[hammer bangs] [mechanical whirring]
But luckily for me,
I got the best partner in town here helping me clean up.
While we have the walls all opened up here.
We're gonna get started on the rewire on this house,
but first we need to tear out all this old wiring.
[energetic rock music]
Once all the old wiring's gone,
we can get all the new rewire done
and get this house up to code.
[hammering and drilling]
[trumpet music]
- Ugh, why?
The last bit of cleanup I need to do in this job
is get rid of this old hot tub.
But this thing is pretty damn big
and I don't think I can do it by myself.
[Justin sighs]
I know I said I would do this house on my own
and the team would not have to get that involved.
But there's no way I'm getting this hot tub out there
on my own. Call Keith Ori.
[phone ringing]
So I'm gonna call Keith 'cause buddy loves to destroy things
and I'm gonna try to convince him that this is gonna be fun.
So here it is, in all its glory.
Dude, I started, I tried being like,
I didn't realize this thing was so ridiculous.
I thought maybe I could get it on my own.
- This needs to go out there, basically.
That's the whole thing? - Yeah.
- I think I got this under control.
I think I can handle this.
I know I said I'd be supportive,
but I can't just turn up here
every single time there's a problem.
I got other projects going on.
But if it's gonna help us save some money on labor,
so we don't have to hire other people, I'm gonna get there.
[saw whirring]
- [Keith] [bleep].
- Let me get it...
- Okay [bleep].
See, that's a doorway.
[hot tub slams down]
It's out.
- [Justin] It's out, just like how I imagined.
[Justin and Keith chuckle]
[high five slap]
- [Justin] Oh Lord.
[easygoing music]
- Converting this open carport into a closed-in garage,
should really increase the value of this home.
So I've got Alan here laying in the concrete walls
to make it happen, but as it sits right now,
the structure won't support the weight of the extra block.
So we're gonna have to install a massive concrete lintel
to support the garage door.
Oh man, that thing's, no joke, that's big.
How are we gonna do it?
We got a crane coming?
- No, no crane. We need muscles, pure muscles.
- You and I?
How much do you think that weighs?
- Roughly four to 500 pounds.
- I don't really wanna call Keith and Duke and ask for help,
but we don't have enough guys here
to muscle this thing into place.
I'm hoping they can come lend a hand,
so that we can get this installed,
so I can move on to other projects that need more time.
- [Duke] Are you for real?
We need some more muscle on the scene here.
Look, just because I'm not working on this house
doesn't mean I don't have things to do.
I know Justin's trying to save some money
by not renting a lift to get this lintel up.
But Keith and I just can't be at his beck and call
whenever he needs a hand over here.
This is his project.
- [Alan] Up!
Back up, back the truck up, back it up,
back it up, back it up, back it up.
Back it up, back it up, hold.
Okay, ready? Slide.
[metal grinds]
Slide.
[grunting]
Whoa. - Okay.
- All right gentlemen, I can do the rest all by myself.
- What?
- All right, you're the man Alan, you are the man.
- That was amazing. - Wow, awesome.
- That was seriously crazy.
We muscled that thing into place.
We didn't have to get a crane out here,
pay any extra money.
Just brute force.
[bright easy music]
[drilling]
The drywall that was already hung has to all come down
because they didn't put any insulation behind it.
And I'm trying to take it down as carefully as possible.
One sheet at a time so that we can reuse it.
But doing this solo is taking forever.
[rock music]
After how long it took to take this drywall down
piece by piece.
There's no way I'm putting it back up.
So I'm gonna get my drywall crew in here
to hopefully knock it out quick
'cause I gotta get this show on the road.
This open house date is coming way sooner
than I'd like it to and I need to be ready for this thing.
[intense music]
- [Duke] I mean, these trims should have been in
by now, right?
All these electrical trims.
- There's no doors, no baseboards.
- There's outlets, yeah, I know, I mean-
- And look at this.
- There's weeks of work still to do here.
- There's supposed to be a pantry here.
- Man, this flip has gone from bad to worse.
The other day, I crushed my Achilles tendon
and I am so limited on what I'm able to do right now.
So I had to call the team in
and go over just the state of this house
and figure out a way we can get this thing finished on time.
- [Ashlee] And what's with this floor?
- What about all the trim work?
All the baseboards, all the casing around here.
the windowsills.
- Windowsills, there's nothing right in this house,
right now, nothing's on time, nothing's done.
- [Justin] Yeah, I know, you guys are telling me a lot
of things that I know.
- We're way behind
[dramatic music strikes]
- It's tough to run a job site by yourself
and also now be injured.
- Justin somehow managed to hurt his leg pretty badly.
So he needs our help to finish this project.
The problem is, looking around,
I can tell it's way behind.
- You wanna do a flip by yourself
without the three of us participating?
This is what comes of it, we're a team, we work together.
- All right.
- All right, well let's get some clipboards.
- Okay. - Boom, boom.
- Ashlee, boom. - Thanks guys.
- I think Justin's learned his lesson here.
We function much better as a team
than every man for himself.
So what it's gonna take is this,
The open house is now pushed back two weeks.
With that extra time comes more money.
We need to increase our expected budget from 60,000
to 85,000.
Add in two weeks and everybody all hands on deck.
We'll get this house finished.
Hopefully we can put this expensive flip behind us.
[truck brakes screech]
- [Keith] What happened?
We just found out our house was broken into.
This is not the way I wanted to start my day.
- Pried the door open right here, popped this open.
They've gone through the house,
nothing else appears to be missing,
but I don't have a list of everything that was here, but-
- So what exactly did they take of yours?
- About three grand worth of hand tools.
- Oh my God.
- This is one of the risks you take
when you're flipping a house.
People see work going on, nobody's home,
next thing you know you got problems.
That's one more reason we gotta get this house finished.
- Our open house is less than 24 hours away
and we are frantically rushing
to the finish line.
While the crew stages the inside of the house,
I've got my painters inside doing touch up.
We still have a bunch of doors
that need hardware and need to be hung.
We have exterior paint that still needs to be done.
We have Closet Envy here, building out all of our closets.
And on top of that, I still have to hide all evidence
that this was a job site just hours ago.
I honestly don't know if we'll be done in time.
[dramatic music]
Today is the open house,
but Ashlee's sitting this one out
'cause she's preggers,
and doesn't need to be on her feet all day.
So I'm taking this one over
and I got the guys over here to do one final walkthrough
before we fire this open house up.
Make sure everything's good to go.
[uplifting music]
- Mm-mm-mm. - All right gang,
Well, the house is done.
What a long strange road it has been.
Do you guys remember what this house used to look like?
- [Duke] Now, it just looks incredible.
- Not bad at all.
- The landscaping really made this thing.
It just reinvented the front
and there was that huge sandlot.
It was like an oasis in the desert or something.
- Dude, look at this yard.
This yard looks like the Sonoran Desert or something.
- So here it is, man, what a beauty.
- [Justin] Now it is way cooler.
- We preserved the soul of the home.
Like the mid-century character is here.
It's definitely brought into the 21st century in a nice way.
- Wait until you guys see the inside.
- [Duke] Oh yeah, let's go.
Oh yes.
- Yeah, man, welcome, welcome, welcome.
- [Duke] Just love that new house smell.
- [Justin] Got the living room over here, which is awesome.
- [Keith] This was all just cold, empty space.
Now look at it.
- Keeping the angle of the mid-century windows really,
like, shows off the slope of the ceiling, everything nicely.
- [Justin] I mean, that's what mid-century is about.
Sharp angles tying in like living spaces.
- [Keith] Remember how depressing this room was before,
but now it's amazing.
- [Justin] So we've got the awesome kitchen right here.
- [Duke] Got our nice choice
of these granite countertops here.
- [Keith] No, it's really nice.
- But the choices in the hardware finish, like the brass,
you know, or the champagne color
that was carried throughout the house.
We've got the blonde wood and the light fixtures
that kind of ties into that same color.
It's good to keep a theme of style throughout, you know.
Let's check out that patio out there.
- [Justin] Do you guys remember this used to be a hot tub?
- [Duke And Keith] Yeah.
- [Justin] And a screen door here.
- Here we go, it's like a little breakfast area here.
You could sit and enjoy some shade.
The pool looks amazing, right?
- Yeah, and you guys remember how swampy
and disgusting this thing was?
This thing is clean.
Let's go look at the bedrooms.
- Yeah, for sure.
- All right.
- [Keith] This room looked like a prison cell.
- I mean, I would sleep in this guest room.
No problem with the pool and the palm tree
right out the window. - Yeah.
That's how I like to wake up, man.
- [Keith] No, it's fantastic.
- Water and a palm tree.
- [Keith] Remember how depressing this room was before?
This place used to be a dungeon.
- Ah, this is nice here.
- This is really nice. - Like a spa.
- Favorite room in the house right here.
- Yeah. - Hands down.
- Everything's perfect.
I mean the wood frame mirror with the faucets coming out
and those faucets look like jewelry.
The concrete tile. [Justin] Isn't this special?
- Hey, so listen, you got the open house in a couple minutes.
We gotta get outta here.
- Yeah, let's do this, Marley and I gotta prep.
[upbeat music]
What's up guys? Hey, I'm Justin.
- Hi. - Come check out the goods.
I couldn't have finished this house without the team,
but since I'm the one that started it,
I also want to be the one to see it to the very end.
So I'm gonna host the open house today
and actually, after rechecking our comps,
I think this house is worth a little more
than our original price.
So I'm also gonna list it at 369,900.
So it's a four bedroom, two bath,
right around 2000 square feet.
- Wow.
- It's nice and big and I love the light.
- I'm digging these accent handles.
- You like that? - Yeah.
- I'm really liking this countertop.
- Yes, we need a pool.
- [Buyer 1] This bedroom is huge.
- That tile is ridiculous.
- [Justin] So here is the guest bath.
- Wow.
- Oh man, more of that tile I like.
- I love this blue tile. - Yeah.
- [Justin] What do you guys think of the house?
- Very interested,
I know it's definitely one of our top contenders.
- I can definitely see myself here.
- Thank you again.
- Yeah, it was so nice to meet you.
And you buddy, come on, let's do this.
Thanks to my awesome team.
We were able to make this house look so cool
that we got a strong offer of 360,000.
We were able to pick up this mid-flip for around $200,000
and even though we had to increase our reno budget
to about $95,000,
the team is still hopefully gonna walk away
with a profit of around 65 grand.
And that's not too bad for a house
that nobody wanted to buy.
- [Narrator] Welcome back to this special edition
of Zombie House Flipping, Back to the Flip.
We're taking a look back at some of the riskiest flips
the team has taken on.
Up next,
the crew believes they discovered a gold mine
in this zombie,
but they soon find out that it does not glitter.
- [Ashlee] The reason we're down here today is,
I found this house, it's kind of overpriced.
I mean, it's been on the market for 70 days already.
It's the mid-century modern
and it's on a half an acre on the lake.
- Oh.
- On Lake Conway?
- Yeah, on Little Lake Conway.
- That's awesome. - I know.
The Lake Conway area is nestled between two large bodies
of water, which makes it great for boating, fishing,
wakeboarding, or just having an awesome lakefront view.
This is it.
- [Keith] Oh. Wow.
- [Justin] Let's check it out. - Let the complaining begin.
- [Ashlee] It's a little ugly.
- [Keith] Talk about lack of curb appeal.
The first thing you notice about this place
is the depressing institutional paint color.
It's all chipped, it's got streaks running down the walls.
Is this a house or is this like a museum of ugliness?
- [Narrator] This house is a 1959 four bed, four bath house
with 2100 square feet.
It has a pool and of course that huge waterfront.
- Don't you think it looks kinda like a hospital here?
- [Keith] A rehab clinic?
- Why does it have a driveway going out the back?
- [Keith] The driveway ends in the lake.
- [Justin] This is so cool.
- No, but how crazy is this, to get your own boat ramp.
- So cool. - There's a boat dock too.
- [Justin] This place is sick.
- [Keith] Okay, so Ash,
what is all this wonderfulness cost us?
- So it's currently listed for 610,000.
- Oh.
- That's not a flip.
610K, holy crap!
That sounds like something we'd sell it for,
not something we'd buy it for.
- [Duke] There's no money in this deal.
You're gonna spend a hundred, 150 on a rehab of this size
- Uh huh.
and then after you have your closing costs and stuff,
it gets trimmed down to nothing. - Yeah.
If we could find an extra 500 square feet in this house,
maybe this flip would be do-able.
But to be honest, I'm not holding my breath.
- Oh, this is a cool little porch.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- [Ashlee] Maybe this is our square footage.
- Looks like an old screen room enclosure though.
I mean, you can see how thin the wall was.
It was like a one and a half inches,
but that's not to say you couldn't make this
a real air-conditioned space.
Ask and you shall receive, I guess.
- Do you guys wanna check the pool?
- For sure, you know it's got the basic building blocks
of a good time out here.
- It's amazing
- [Duke] Got the pool. There's like a bar spot there.
- [Keith] Okay, so we got a pool party pad.
That's a step in the right direction,
but it's the inside of this house
that's gonna decide if it's a deal worth doing.
[dramatic music strikes]
- [Duke] Okay, fireplace number one.
- [Ashlee] Wow.
- [Keith] Electric heat number one, what the hell?
- [Justin] Is that like a radiator?
- [Keith] Yeah, it's an electric radiator.
- Check out the seventies mirrored wall right there.
- I love it, we can all dance, have a dance party.
- [Justin] All right, let's go see the kitchen.
- [Keith] Oh yeah. - [Ashlee] Wow.
- A nice bar here, low cabinets.
Hey, bartender, lemme get an asprin right here.
- [Keith] The cabinets cover half the opening.
- [Duke] I think this was redone
sometime in the 19-nasties, actually.
- Oh guys, there's a couple more problems in here.
That's Federal Pacific.
- [Justin] The last time this electrical box was serviced,
it was so long ago, apparently phone numbers were only-
- [Duke] Five digits, look at it.
- [Keith] So that's all gotta go.
- This house is like a lesson in old technology
and bad floor plans.
Fun to make fun of, fixing and make livable?
Not so much.
- Wow, that's a hallway and a half.
- [Duke] Wow, it's a bowling alley, not a hallway,
look at it.
- [Justin] That's the long part
that we thought was the addition.
- I don't think I can throw a football that far.
- [Ashlee] Door number one.
- [Duke] Whoa, it's the green room.
- [Keith] Super creepy, it's got a levitating toilet.
- Look at the ceiling, what is this stuff?
- Probably asbestos.
- Guys, we haven't seen any living space,
like any bedroom type space yet.
So they have all gotta be down here, right?
- Look, the windows are trapped inside closets.
- No wait, look down there though.
There's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 of those.
- [Duke] Five huge closets.
- This had to be some kind of therapy unit
or something where you live in the room with the heater
and then that's your closet here.
- Yeah 'cause we got the radiator
and another floating toilet over here.
- Granted, the lake is beautiful.
Everything else inside these four walls sucks.
- There's definitely potential.
I mean, the living space is really nice.
The kitchen could be huge.
Then we could just blow through all these walls.
- If you stripped all these walls out,
you have to re-drywall.
You're gonna be electric, you're gonna be plumbing,
you're gonna be HVAC.
You're gonna have to repair the wood floor
where you tear out walls.
If you bought this house for 450,
I'd be like, where do we sign?
But now its a little more iffy at six plus.
- Well, I can try making an offer at 450
and see what happens.
- [Duke] We'll get laughed at.
- The land value's above 450.
- You know, I'm totally sick of hearing all the reasons
why we shouldn't buy this house
when the biggest reason we want to buy this house
is the lakefront view,
which honestly is one of the nicest around.
This place is a diamond in the rough
and I'm determined to do it.
I'm putting in an offer for 550
and if we get it, we're moving forward.
So everyone agree?
- If it gets me outta this hot room, I'll agree.
- Yeah, I know- - Yay, put it there.
- Fine, whatever. - Yay.
- [Justin] We were able to negotiate a purchase price
of $560,000.
A huge markdown from the 610 they originally wanted.
But we also need a huge budget.
$140,000 for a total investment of 700 grand.
We'll take eight weeks on this major flip.
And by adding the square footage from the patio,
we think a list price of $885,000 will snag a buyer
and snag us a great profit of 185 grand.
- [Narrator] The biggest thing that needs to be fixed
in the house,
is the crazy wing of bedroom slash patient's quarters.
First, the team will rip out the unnecessary closets
in the hallway
that will allow them to push the bedroom walls out,
giving more space in every room.
Then they'll open up the rear bedroom
by shifting its shared wall over to make it bigger
and use that old bonus room to create a beautiful main bath.
Then they'll reclaim the rear patio as interior living space
by closing it in around the perimeter with glass doors
and removing the doors above the steps.
They'll also get rid of that old stone bench
and put matching floor tile
and other finishes throughout to tie it all together.
- [Narrator] We are revisiting some of the riskiest flips
of Zombie House.
The team has overcome some obstacles blocking their path
to a huge payday
and now that they're out of the way,
the crew is hoping for smooth sailing from here on in.
[cupboard crashes to ground]
- What do you have a golf bag for?
- Well before this demo crew gets here to help us,
we're gonna have some fun.
[Keith chuckles]
Demo day is always an epic day
because that ugly mirror wall in the living room,
it's about to get clubbed to death.
- Oh, shoot.
- Fore!
[glass shatters]
- Geez, what happened? Holy cow.
- It's time to tear this clinical disaster
of a house apart,
the right way, including this mirror wall.
- [Keith] Timber!
[cabinet crashes to ground]
- [Ashlee] The kitchen cabinets, and all of the drywall
so we can reshape this very strange wing of bedrooms.
[driving music]
- [Keith] What the hell?
[sledgehammer smashing]
Hey, Ashlee, Duke.
- Oh, how'd you get through that?
- [Ashlee] What happened? - [Keith] There's no subfloor.
- [Duke] Oh wow, it rotted away completely.
- Yeah, I know.
- The moisture, probably, is always soaking through
and it's like meat tenderizer for the wood.
- This wood rot in the bathroom is an absolute disaster.
If the floors are like this
throughout the rest of the house.
Our budget is shot right from the start.
Hi Travis, we got a big problem. - [Keith] Yeah.
Today I brought in Travis, a foundation expert,
to check out all that rotten wood under the bathroom floor.
We're hoping to flip this waterfront property
for a nice payout despite its weird layout.
If we do this right there could be nearly 200 grand in it.
However, all those foundation problems,
they could crumble our plans pretty fast.
So this is in really bad shape.
That's the main bearing beam
for the entire length of the house
and it's the sole supporting beam for the floor,
but I can't tell the extent of the damage.
- Okay.
- Those joists look good or not?
- [Keith] Yeah, let me get the light, I got a light here.
- [Ashlee] Please give us some good news.
[suspenseful music]
- As far as the joists, it stops right there at that beam.
- [Ashlee] This stuff, this is the end of this one?
- Yeah, that's the end of that beam.
- [Keith] So is it hard to fix?
- All we have to do is go to the next pier, splice it,
steel plate it, and then let the joists back down
on top of it. - Yeah?
Wow, what a relief.
Since the damage was confined to just this one area,
we only have to replace a short section
of the load bearing beam
and then replace some joists underneath the bathroom.
It's gonna be a tough job,
but it's not gonna break the bank.
Yeah, that's the one saving grace
of having a good crawl space.
- [Ashlee] Yeah.
- [Keith] Okay, got some framing going on.
- [Justin] It feels so much bigger
without those closets in here.
- [Keith] I know.
- Oh wait, this is different than the plans.
Ashlee!
- I'm coming, where are you?
- We're here and we're confused.
You guys did a lot more demo and this room is bigger.
- I know, I made it way bigger
and I thought this was too small of a bedroom.
That was too small of a bedroom.
- Okay, so that'll make us a three bedroom, three bath?
- [Ashlee] Five bathroom. - Five bath?
We are gonna have five bathrooms in this house?
- Every room has a bathroom.
And actually I ordered the bath already.
I ordered the vanity and they're being shipped already.
- You know this bathroom alone's gonna be, like,
an additional 15 grand.
That's 10% of the budget right there.
I just don't want to get to the point
where we're trading dollar for dollar.
You know what I'm saying?
- That's true, that's true. - Gotta get that return.
- I got it, I got it.
I get what these guys are saying.
Upgrades only really pay off
if they're reflected in the sale price.
But this one, I guarantee, will work.
[upbeat music]
- Today, it's time to replace that death trap
of a boat dock outback.
- [Justin] We started with $140,000
and our early fixes have already rung up over
$18,000 in expenses.
I hope Ash can keep her grand ideas in check
'cause this house is bound to have some unexpected expenses
that are really gonna cost a pretty penny.
- [Duke] I think that struck block wall
could be a really cool detail, you know.
- Well, yeah, I hope when they cut it,
we can just keep the look of it.
- Oh, the house is on fire, (bleep).
Hey, hey, hey.
- Oh my God.
Don't go in there! - [Duke] Oh, (bleep).
Hey, get outta here.
- Oh my God, Duke, are you okay?
Oh my God, I have to call 9-1-1.
- What's on fire? Keith?
What are you? What's going on here?
What is all the smoke?
- There's a fire at Bayfront Parkway.
- No, no, no, no, no.
- It's 9-1-1.
- Nevermind that, it's a mistake.
- Oh, sorry. - It's Keith.
He's around here, he's got some kind of machine.
- What is this?
- I thought the house was on fire.
- No, I told you we were checking for leaks today
in the plumbing system.
- I didn't know it was with a smoke shooter.
- Oh, it's a smoke machine.
It detects leaks in a plumbing circuit.
See where the holes are, see where the problems are.
- There's clearly a bunch of leaks in the drainage.
Probably need a new septic tank with a new drain field
because they're concrete
and concrete disintegrates over time.
- Oh my goodness.
Oh, what's your estimate on the price of, like, ballpark?
- Probably close to 30,000. [Ashlee gasps]
- 30 grand?
Now we have to decide whether we wanna fix the old one
or spend $30,000 to get a new system.
- Something's gotta give here.
If we're spending 30 on plumbing, we didn't expect and-
- Yeah, I can see some of your tile choices getting cheaper
and cheaper, I mean, honest to God,
what aren't we replacing here?
- The only way to deal with an expense this massive,
is to go ahead and bite the bullet
and spend the money now. That way it's gone from the budget.
[light music]
We can just put some gravel here or something.
There's just some final touches there.
They'll clean out those mulch,
put some fresh plantings, you know?
- Okay, I'm good with that.
- Open house is coming up fast,
so it's time to focus on all the unique touches
that'll give this house its personality.
- But what is that smell?
It's like sewage or something, - Dog poo?
- Like someone didn't flush the toilet.
Go check in there. - I don't know.
- [Ashlee] Check that bathroom.
- Oh, it does stink back here.
Oh, no, the toilet's backed up, dude, it's overflowing.
- Oh my God, that's disgusting.
- Keith, Keith, are you around?
- What's going on?
- That toilet out there in the pool bath is backing up.
- We got like six bathrooms in this house.
- Well, they're not normal.
- Here's another one.
Ah!
- What, this one too? Oh geez.
Look, check those other ones.
I'm gonna check the kitchen.
- Okay, what the heck is going on?
This doesn't make any sense.
Hey, this one's fine too.
We replaced all the pipes in this house,
plus the whole septic tank.
Hey guys, these are fine.
So there's no reason these toilets ought to be suffering
from Montezuma's Revenge.
We gotta get Brownies back out here pronto.
- Hey, how you doing man? - That was fast.
- Oh man, the office called me
and I wanted to come right over.
They said something's going on, what do you guys got?
- We got an issue.
- We have half the house with clogged drains
and stuff coming outta the toilet.
- Okay. And the other half is fine.
- Older Florida homes are known to have two septic tanks.
- [Keith] What would it cost to fix it?
- Probably looking at 10, 12 grand on replacing the system.
[dramatic music strikes]
- [Keith] Oh man.
So here we go again, digging up a septic system.
[upbeat music]
- We're racing to the finish line
and putting the final touches on this house.
We're painting the exterior walls a crisp white
to give the house a luxury getaway vibe.
- [Ashlee] Finally, no flip is complete without Megan Morris
and our MHM staging team.
- Hi Ashlee. - Hey, great to see you.
Your guys are doing a great job, they're already inside.
It looks fabulous inside.
- Gotta get started early.
- [Ashlee] They're arranging a perfect ensemble
of contemporary casual furniture
to really showcase this home and its lakeside beauty.
- [Justin] Well, we did our best,
but our $140,000 budget
didn't stretch quite as far as we'd hoped.
We ended up spending over $145,000
putting us in the red as far as renovation budget goes.
But hopefully the extra expenses will pay off
on the sale price of this home.
- [Keith] Wow. - [Ashlee] Finally completed.
- [Justin] Wow!
Oh, it looks great.
- Guys, this thing was a monster.
Do you remember how dreary this place was before?
- [Keith] Yeah, it looked more like a creepy asylum
than a house.
- [Justin] It's much more welcoming now,
like a house should be.
- [Keith] What I wanna see is the inside.
- [Ashlee] Let's check it out.
Look at this place now.
- [Keith] Absolutely stunning.
- It's crazy that this is the first thing you see
when you walk in the door and it's so gorgeous.
And how about this elegant dining room?
- [Duke] I can't believe what this space has turned into.
- Now this is amazing.
- It's totally different, yeah?
- [Keith] For sure, it went from like a disco tavern
to a hip modern space.
- [Ashlee] Let's go check out the kitchen.
- [Duke] Look at this thing thing.
- Oh my goodness.
Can you guys remember that old kitchen that was here?
- [Justin] Oh yeah, super low ceilings
and even lower overhead cabinets.
- [Duke] Every inch of this kitchen was ugly and outdated.
We got a new white kitchen here.
There's a nice gray accented granite countertop.
- So cool.
Guys, look at this hallway now.
I mean, it's absolutely incredible.
Remember it was low ceiling,
- [Duke] All these closets on this entire side
- [Ashlee] It was creepy as hell.
- [Duke] Well, that haunted hallway look is gone now.
- Okay, onto the bedrooms.
So this was the original bedroom space.
- [Justin] This is a great simple refresh.
The old windows were replaced
and the hardwood floors were refinished.
- [Duke] This may have been mostly cosmetic,
but the bathroom got completely rebuilt from the ground up.
Literally.
- [Keith] Yeah, I remember nearly falling
through the floor,
- [Ashlee] But I mean, look at it now.
It looks fabulous, right?
- [Duke] For sure.
That's amazing.
- [Ashlee] And then for the pièce de résistance,
we used the rest of that old bedroom space
to create this gorgeous bath.
- Wow, all kinds of marble, look at that.
- Oh dude, this place is a palace.
Well worth it.
- [Keith] Totally worth it.
- [Ashlee] Yeah, absolutely.
- Wanna get the open house started?
- Yeah.
- The team couldn't be happier
with how this house turned out.
Ashlee had some grand design ideas,
but after seeing the final product,
I am super confident
that we'll end up getting our $895,000 asking price.
[easy bright music]
- This is pretty. - Isn't it beautiful?
- [Justin] Hey, what's up guys?
- Hey, how you doing?
- Welcome to the open house.
You girls wanna take the tour?
- Yeah, I'd love to. - Cool.
This is our dining room.
- [Buyer 2] Look at these floors.
- [Justin] Got a double-sided fireplace.
- Love that color. - Beautiful.
- [Justin] So here's the kitchen.
- Wow, yes, we love what you guys did with this.
- [Justin] And this is your backyard paradise.
- Look at the dock. This water looks lovely.
Oh, and this view.
- Man, I like this.
- [Mother] What do you think? - [Daughter] It's amazing.
- [Justin] Yeah, gold.
Let's go sign a contract.
Our open house was fantastic.
After just a couple days on the market,
we ended up actually having a little bidding war
and ended up accepting a full-price offer.
We bought this house for 560 grand,
and put around 145 grand into it.
So when the sale is complete,
we'll hopefully have earned around $189,000 on this flip.
- [Ashlee] Oh, hi guys, how are you?
What's happening, we're having lunch?
- There's a little more to it than that.
- Your performance on the job been a little slacking.
- What?
- We're teasing, we're teasing.
You're about to be rewarded for your patience.
- What? Oh my God.
It's huge, oh my goodness, look.
- [Justin] Yeah, baby needs a new pair of shoes.
- Thanks guys, I wish lunch was like this every day.
[laughing]