Flip This Wholesaler

Hi, I'm Steph. Welcome to my blog!

My name is Steph Davis.

I live downtown with my dog, Jim.

I hail from Tampa, FL aka the Land of Sunshine and Real Estate/Internet Marketing Gurus.

In a former life I was a bartender.

On January 1st of 2007 I decided to quit my job at the bar and jump into wholesaling full time. I had only completed a handful of deals, and didn’t really know what the hell I was doing, but I jumped in anyway. I was sick and tired of waiting on people for a living, so I made a commitment to myself that 2007 was the year that I would  leave the “bar scene”  and never go back.  No matter what.

I thought it would be smooth sailing ahead, but 2007 turned out to be a disaster of epic proportions…

After quitting my job in January, it ended up taking me SIX MONTHS to get my next deal under contract.  Six months is a long freaking time.

To say that I was discouraged would be the understatement of the year.  I was miserable and broke, and on the verge of having to swallow my pride and go back to the bar.

I was pretty much at my breaking point when I FINALLY closed a deal (I like to call it the deal that saved my ass, or TDTSMA).

My life has changed quite a bit since then….

In January of 2008 I wholesaled my first REO, and ended up closing 19 REO deals that year.  Due to the overwhelming amount of questions I was receiving about flipping REOs, I wrote and released my first Ebook, Flip This REO, in the summer of 2009.

I started this blog back in October of 2006 a few months before I left the bar, and have documented my entire journey since then- the good, the bad, and the ugly. If you’d like to get an idea of what it’s really like to start this business from scratch (it varies, slightly, from the happy horseshit the gurus speak of), then pull up a chair, and start from the beginning.

Thanks for stopping by, and Happy Wholesaling!

XOXO
Steph

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