![]() ![]() ![]() But these are also costs of doing business that any house flipper, real estate investor, or home buyer will need to take into consideration. The only costs that are not taken into consideration are the transactional fees: land transfer taxes, legal fees, realtor fees, property taxes, etc. So that means everyone gets paid: from carpenters, to electricians, to drywallers, to tapers, to cleaners and stagers. “It’s a bad business model.” When pressed, Dave answers simply: “We don’t believe anyone should work for free.” “We don’t take pro-bono work,” says Dave. ![]() Even more impressive is that the numbers at the end of each episode are realistic. “These days they could easily sell the home for $700,000.”īut the big numbers and bright lights don’t wash away the couple’s desire to make a living-and help others do the same. “Back then we opted for a neighbourhood that had not yet ‘arrived’ but had potential.” The gamble paid off. “We had neighbours who bought their home for $15,000 (after the devastating 1998 hurricane),” says Kortney. “Nashville has undergone a complete transformation from when we first bought into the market in 1998,” explains Kortney. Truth is, though, home flipping-whether it’s in Nashville, TN, or Scottsdale, AZ, or Toronto, ON-is becoming tougher and tougher. The premise behind the show is simple: Can a pair of Canadians find happiness flipping homes in America’s music city? Watch an episode or two and you’ll quickly answer that question yourself. A humility that comes through on and off the set of their new reality property show: Masters of the Flip (which premieres tomorrow night, May 12, at 10 p.m. Perhaps it’s those humbling days waiting tables that gives this now-famous family a lot more humility than most. economy tanked in 2008, Kortney and David Wilson found themselves scrambling for any work that paid the bills. Not only do they both sign recording deals, but they meet, fall in-love, record music, star on a TV-show and start a family. Independent of each other they set off for Nashville, Tennessee. The back story is the stuff of fairytales: Two teenagers from two completely different smaller Ontario towns have big dreams to be singers. ![]()
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