7 Ways To Find Time To Get Started Now

How can you make time to get started flipping houses this month?

We know that house flipping can be a very attractive way to upgrade our finances, free up more time, and find more enjoyment and satisfaction in our work. Yet, many are struggling to find the time to just get started. Some have been wrestling with this for years, while others are flipping houses all up and down the block. Once you get going things can happen fast. So, how do you find the time to start making progress?

1. Make a Big Commitment

It’s amazing how much more we can accomplish when we set a deadline or the pressure is on. Too often we get comfortable and our motivation stalls out. Beat this by making a big commitment. Monetary ones usually work best. This could be putting a deposit on a dream vacation for later this year, signing up for a big industry event, promising your romantic partner their dream car on their birthday, or pledging to do something big for charity. Pick something. Put it on your calendar. See your productivity pick up.

2. Get Up Earlier

If you need to make more time in your day, try getting up a little earlier. Maybe you just need an extra 30 minutes. Or it could be an hour or more. That’s 7 hours per week, or almost a whole extra working day you can apply to flipping houses. If you can get up 2 hours earlier, you gain 2 days each week!

3. Get Some Assistants

If you are already working 40 to 80 hours a week, plus have family or other commitments, it can be tough to find a lot more time to dedicate to getting started in real estate. Assistants may be your answer. It’s a good way to start, because you’ll want them later anyway. Outsource basic tasks so that you are making progress while at your day job, and even while you are sleeping, or at your kids’ sporting events. If you make $40 an hour for an employer, and hire a great assistant for $20 an hour you are still making a profit on the clock.

4. Get an Accountability Partner

Founder of the world’s largest real estate brokerage, Gary Keller, quotes research showing that those who write down their goals have a 40% better chance of achieving them. Those that also share those goals with a friend increase their odds of success by almost 80%. An accountability partner can be a friend or family member, a peer, or someone else. Of course, friends and family can be a little too lenient sometimes. Keller says the best accountability partner is a coach who will hold you accountable. That is just someone to report into regularly on your progress. When you know you have a coaching session coming up, you can be sure you will work faster to show some results.

5. Block Out the Time

If it doesn’t get scheduled, it doesn’t get done. If you just try to wing it and say you’ll try to scout some properties or make some offers once you do everything else for the day, odds are that you’ll never find the time. If you switch that up and work on your house flipping business first each day, it will get done.

6. Multitask

Try working on your house flipping while doing other things you normally do. If you can’t stop watching TV in the evening, then at least breakout your laptop and make it a habit to search for deals while you are watching. Everyone eats right? So, mix in networking and appointments over lunch and dinner. If you need to get out and fix up a house on the weekend, can you take your family with you to work on it together?

7. Just Do It

There will always be excuses or other things which can absorb time. If you are serious about flipping houses; then just do it. Just start taking action today. One of the best ways to do this is to call, email, and mail agents, wholesalers, and sellers. Put that into action today, and as the responses come in you’ll be triggered into action to start working those deals.