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'''Flip or Flop Follow-Up''' premiered July 14, 2015.<ref>[http://www.amazon.com/Expensive-Lessons/dp/B013TPBKT2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1440794655&sr=8-1&keywords=flip+or+flop+follow+up Flip or Flop Follow Up]</ref> The show revisits old house flips from previous episodes. The series goes deeper into the issues with the individual flips, and shows previously unaired footage. The series also updates on houses that remained unsold at the time of the original production. These three stories including a successful flip, a flop and a follow-up that ends with Tarek and Christina revisiting one of their house flips.<ref>[http://www.hgtv.com/shows/flip-or-flop-follow-up Flip or Flop Follow-Up]</ref>
'''Flip or Flop 1.8 Continued''' premiered July 14, 2015.<ref>[http://www.amazon.com/Expensive-Lessons/dp/B013TPBKT2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1440794655&sr=8-1&keywords=flip+or+flop+follow+up Flip or Flop Follow Up]</ref> The show revisits old house flips from previous episodes. The series goes deeper into the issues with the individual flips, and shows previously unaired footage. The series also updates on houses that remained unsold at the time of the original production. These three stories including a successful flip, a flop and a follow-up that ends with Tarek and Christina revisiting one of their house flips.<ref>[http://www.hgtv.com/shows/flip-or-flop-follow-up Flip or Flop Follow-Up]</ref>


==References==
==References==

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Flip or Flop
GenreReality television
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
Production
Running time30 minutes
Original release
NetworkHGTV
ReleaseApril 16, 2013 (2013-04-16)

Flip or Flop is a television series airing on HGTV hosted by real estate agents and real life husband and wife, Tarek El Moussa (born August 21, 1981) and Christina El Moussa (born July 9, 1983).[1]

Premise

The El Moussas were both Real Estate agents prior to the real estate crash in 2008, and began flipping homes.[2] Most of the properties are located in Orange County, California.[3]

One day in 2011, Tarek asked a friend to help him make an audition tape for HGTV. The friend filmed an entire episode of the process of house flipping from start to finish. The audition tape was sent to HGTV and they were interested in talking to the couple. In 2012, HGTV signed the couple to a regular weekly program that shows the process of buying distressed property and renovating it.[4] In an interview for Variety Magazine, Christina said "each episode shows things that can go wrong, and do go wrong".[5]

Christina’s real estate expertise is primarily in design and she works with Tarek to find and renovate homes. She handles the designs of the new spaces and keeps everything on schedule.

File:Christina and Tarek.jpg
Christina and Tarek El Moussa

The show follows them as they buy homes, typically bank-owned, short sales, or foreclosures to renovate and resell.[6]

Hosts

Personal Life

Christina was born in Anaheim and grew up in Anaheim Hills, CA.[7] She went to school in southern California and began working in the real estate industry right after college, where she met her husband, Tarek. Tarek El Moussa earned his real estate license at twenty-one years of age.[8]

Tarek and Christina were married in 2009 and currently live in Yorba Linda, California. They have a daughter named Taylor and son named Brayden.[9]

Tarek and Christina were selling real estate and were selling millions of dollars worth of upscale homes in the southern California area.[10] When the housing market plummeted after the October 2008 stock market crash, they went from living in a $6,000 per month home to a $700 per month apartment.

Tarek was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 2013 when a viewer of the TV show noticed a lump on his thyroid gland and wrote in to say that he should have it checked. After testing, the doctors found that the lump was cancerous and he was scheduled for immediate surgery.[11]

Real Estate Career

Today the couple runs a real-estate agency, called Tarek and Christina: The El Moussa Group, in Orange County, CA, an area with one of the largest foreclosure rates in the country.[12] Tarek, Christina and their business partner, Pete De Best, bought their first investment house in Santa Ana for $115,000. After selling the property for a profit of $34,000, the trio split the money and have continued to flip houses, expanding their real estate investing business into Arizona and Nevada.[13]

Real Estate Training Workshops

The couple leads Success Path Education, a real estate investment seminar series held at locations across North America for aspiring investors.[14] During these workshops, the couple explains the entire process of house flipping to potential investors. They try to help new investors avoid common mistakes when flipping houses.

Today the couple has successfully flipped hundreds of homes, and with each deal they have refined their house-flipping system and broken it down into a series of repeatable steps. Their system helps to maximize profits, reduce expensive mistakes and get the best overall profits from every deal.

Since Tarek and Christina started coaching a few years ago, Success Path has become one of the most popular real estate training workshops in North America.[15]

Series overview

Season Episodes Originally aired
Season premiere Season finale
1 13 April 16, 2013 May 28, 2013
2 14 April 8, 2014 July 8, 2014
3 15 October 7, 2014

Season 1

Season # Series # Title Original air date Cost of home ($) Closing cost ($) Rehab cost ($) Sale price ($) Profit/loss ($) Contractor
11"The Foreclosure Heebie-Jeebies"April 16, 2013275,00022,00053,000405,000+ 55,000Daniel Messina

  • Flip Location: Long Beach, California
22"Vandalized Foreclosure"April 16, 2013430,00026,00029,000560,000+ 65,000Daniel Messina

33"Awkward Floor Plan"April 23, 2013393,000N/A37,387510,000+ 79,613Daniel Messina

  • Flip Location: Yorba Linda, California Note: all costs and profits on this flip were split 50/50 with Pete de Best.
44"Double Trouble Flip"April 23, 2013280,000N/A117,000512,000+ 115,000Daniel Messina

55"Underwater Flip"April 30, 2013490,000TBA33,900UnsoldTBDIsrael Battres

66"Spanish Style Salvage"April 30, 2013208,00020,60057,935360,000+ 73,465Daniel Messina

77"Inland Empire Cosmetic Nightmare"May 7, 2013180,00012,00053,200290,000+ 44,800Daniel Messina

88"The Bungalow Gamble"May 7, 2013182,00020,60053,000320,000+ 66,200Daniel Messina

99"Flop House Flip"May 14, 2013210,00017,50083,000368,500+ 58,000Israel Battres

1010"Facelift Flip"May 14, 2013200,00013,00046,000330,000+ 71,000Israel Battres

1111"A Flip With A View"May 21, 2013540,000TBA72,000UnsoldTBDIsrael Battres

  • Flip Location: Whittier, California Note: Tarek and Christina had to borrow against Dominique's (Tarek's mother) home equity line of credit in order to fund the renovation. During Flip or Flip Follow Up "High Risk, High Reward?" episode, it was revealed that they made 60,000 profit on the listed.
1212"The Moldy Mess"May 21, 2013385,00025,00066,000530,000+ 54,000Israel Battres

1313"Keeping Up With The Joneses"May 28, 2013386,000TBA169,000UnsoldTBDIsrael Battres

Season 2

Season # Series # Title Original air date Cost of home ($) Closing cost ($) Rehab cost ($) Sale price ($) Profit/loss ($) Contractor
114"Foreclosure Shock"April 8, 2014410,00035,000123,000685,000+ 117,000Israel Battres

215"Unfinished Flip"April 15, 2014315,00025,00075,000510,000+ 95,000Israel Battres

316"Nothing But Potential"April 22, 2014406,00030,000174,700700,000+ 89,300Israel Battres

417"Too Small to Fail"April 29, 2014
Parents Loan >
275,000
15,000
22,00042,750420,000+ 62,000Israel Battres

518"Dirty, Dated and Undesired"May 6, 2014330,00020,00060,000500,000+ 90,000Israel Battres

619"Flipper vs. Flipper"May 13, 2014680,00051,300TBA880,000+ 34,000Israel Battres

720"A Barnyard Dance"May 20, 2014565,000TBA103,100TBALeft UnansweredIsrael Battres

Note: During Flip out Flop Follow Up, Taking Risks episode it was revealed that this house sold for 715,000 for a profit of 4,600.

821"Hard Money Blues"May 27, 2014
Hard Money Loan >
625,000
25,600
40,000168,000940,000+ 81,400Israel Battres

922"Loud, Louder, Loudest"June 3, 2014440,00024,000TBA643,000+ 96,000Israel Battres

1023"A Neglected Flip"June 10, 2014325,00014,500TBA456,000+ 73,900Israel Battres

1124"Ranch House of Ruin"June 17, 2014345,00025,00060,000510000+ 80,000Israel Battres

1225"Mid-Century Flip"June 24, 2014520,00030,000TBA725,000+ 39,000Israel Battres

1326"A Risky Flip"July 1, 2014350,00017,00073,000499,900+ 59,900Jeff Lawrence

1427"Hilltop Hangup"July 8, 2014560,000TBA67,000UnsoldTBDSteve Cederquist

Season 3

Season # Series # Title Original air date Cost of home ($) Closing cost ($) Rehab cost ($) Sale price ($) Profit/loss ($) Contractor
128"Cracked Flip"October 7,2014555,000No Closing Cost
10,000 escrow fees
103,400730,000+ 61,600Israel Battres

  • Flip Location: Yorba Linda, California Note: Tarek & Christina sold this house to Tarek's sister, Angelique, for $20,000 less than what they intended to list the house for. Closing costs were also waived.
229"Toxic Flip"April 7, 2015255,00015,00062,900429,900+ 97,000Steve Cederquist

330"Custom Craftsman"April 14, 2015410,00025,000125,000625,000+ 65,000Israel Battres/
Jessie Rodriguez

  • Flip Location: Santa Ana, California Note: all costs and profits on this flip were split 50/50 with Jessie Rodriguez.
431"Abandoned Flip"April 21, 2015235,00020,000100,000410,000+ 55,000Israel Battres

532"Junk Yard Flip"April 28, 2015307,00020,00033,428409,900+ 49,472Jeff Lawrence

633"Pipe Dreams"May 5, 2015400,00020,00044,600550,000+ 85,400Steve Cederquist

734"Freeway Flip"May 12, 2015400,00025,00071,250595,000+ 98,750Steve Cederquist

835"No Risk, No Reward"May 19, 2015415,00020,00085,300559,000+ 38,700Don Jensen

936"Too Good To Be True"May 26, 2015385,00022,00052,000549,900+ 90,900Israel Battres

1037"A Flip With The Enemy"June 2, 2015435,00025,00065,600599,900+ 74,300Akeli Slade/
Jeff Lawrence

1138"Big Lot, Little Flip"June 9, 2015272,00026,000105,300400,000- 3,300Jeff Lawrence

1239"The Money Pit"June 16, 2015315,000TBA60,000UnsoldTBDSteve Cederquist

1340"Thrifty vs Glitzy"June 23, 2015400,00019,20040,700524,900+ 65,000Jeff Lawrence

  • Flip Location: Orange, California Note: all costs and profits on this flip were split 50/50 with Pete de Best.
1441"A Dinky Flip"June 30, 2015319,000TBA54,300UnsoldTBDSteve Cederquist

1542"Pig In A Poke"July 07, 2015332,00020,00075,400482,500+ 55,100Steve Cederquist

Spin off

Flip or Flop 1.8 Continued premiered July 14, 2015.[19] The show revisits old house flips from previous episodes. The series goes deeper into the issues with the individual flips, and shows previously unaired footage. The series also updates on houses that remained unsold at the time of the original production. These three stories including a successful flip, a flop and a follow-up that ends with Tarek and Christina revisiting one of their house flips.[20]

References

  1. ^ Lewis, Raha (September 10, 2013). "Flip or Flop Host Tarek El Moussa Battling Thyroid Cancer". People. Retrieved October 24, 2013.
  2. ^ "Is HGTV's "Flip or Flop" real?". Webuyuglyhouses.com. Retrieved May 16, 2015.
  3. ^ "Tarek and Christina". Tarek and Christina Buy Houses. Retrieved 30 July 2015. {{cite web}}: |first1= missing |last1= (help)
  4. ^ "Tarek & Christina El Moussa Make The Decision To 'Flip Or Flop'". MyFoxLA.com.
  5. ^ Hendrickson, Paula (October 14, 2014). "HGTV's Stars Boast Real Expertise in Their Fields". Variety.com.
  6. ^ "Local couple star in HGTV reality show on flipping houses - The Orange County Register". ocregister.com. Retrieved May 16, 2015.
  7. ^ "Local couple star in HGTV reality show on flipping houses - The Orange County Register". ocregister.com.
  8. ^ "Tarek El Moussa Bio". HGTV.
  9. ^ "Christina El Moussa Bio". HGTV.com. Retrieved 2015-04-03
  10. ^ "Flip or Flop: Tarek and Christina El Moussa". youtube.com.
  11. ^ "Flip or Flop Host Tarek El Moussa Battling Thyroid Cancer". People Magazine. 10 September 2013. Retrieved 2015-06-05.
  12. ^ http://www.realtytrac.com/news/foreclosure-trends/los-angeles-foreclosure-activity-down-18-percent-in-february/
  13. ^ "Local couple star in HGTV reality show on flipping houses". The Orange County Register.
  14. ^ "Tarek and Christina | Success Path Education". successpatheducation.com. Retrieved 2015-04-03.
  15. ^ http://www.successpatheducation.com/tarek-and-christina/
  16. ^ "Flip or Flop". HGTV. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
  17. ^ 8. No Risk, No Reward
  18. ^ Season 3 Episode 8
  19. ^ Flip or Flop Follow Up
  20. ^ Flip or Flop Follow-Up