209: Flipping 83 Homes in the Last 18 Months with Kevin Carroll

<p>Is small thinking holding you back? Not after this episode! Today on the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.biggerpockets.com/podcast" target="_blank">BiggerPockets Podcast</a>, Josh and Brandon talk with&nbsp;<strong>Kevin Carroll</strong>, a real estate investor who decided 18 months ago that he wanted to start flipping houses… and has done&nbsp;<strong>83 flips in the past year and a half</strong>! Perhaps most impressively, Kevin did most of these flips out of state utilizing strategic partnerships — a strategy that just might change the way you think about real estate forever. Sit back and prepare to have your mindset expanded and let “big thinking” take over.</p><p>In This Episode We Cover:</p><ul><li>How Kevin went from&nbsp;a straw-built house&nbsp;to&nbsp;<strong>flipping 1,000 houses</strong></li><li>What a&nbsp;<strong>bank-owned product</strong>&nbsp;is</li><li>How he built a&nbsp;<strong>system</strong>&nbsp;that works</li><li>What&nbsp;you should know about&nbsp;<strong>probates</strong></li><li>How to think&nbsp;like an&nbsp;<strong>investor</strong>&nbsp;instead of an agent</li><li>Things that could&nbsp;<strong>screw up</strong>&nbsp;a deal</li><li>The two components that make a deal&nbsp;<strong>successful</strong></li><li>Why you should consider&nbsp;<strong>holding costs</strong></li><li>Buying properties&nbsp;<strong>offsite</strong></li><li>Insight on quality control and&nbsp;<strong>scaling</strong>&nbsp;the business</li><li>How to stay&nbsp;<strong>ahead</strong>&nbsp;of the flip</li><li>Why he&nbsp;<strong>partners</strong>&nbsp;with real estate agents</li><li>Why his partners&nbsp;<strong>need</strong>&nbsp;him</li><li>His&nbsp;<strong>favorite</strong>&nbsp;deals and why</li><li>The&nbsp;<strong>bad</strong>&nbsp;deals he’s encountered</li><li>Thinking big when it comes to setting&nbsp;<strong>targets</strong></li><li>Who your&nbsp;<strong>friends</strong>&nbsp;are so&nbsp;important</li><li><strong>And SO much more!</strong></li></ul><p>Links from the Show</p><ul><li>Path to Purchase