Investors Still Flipping Houses in Canada and the US
June 25th, 2008I just returned home from Frank McKinney’s Extreme Home Tour for The Caring House Project Foundation in Florida and Haiti. I’ll blog more about this life-changing event and will include what I learned in a new book. Follow me on twitter to get the blog updates. You won’t want to miss the great photographs of the Florida mansions and the glorious people of Haiti.
Before I left for the Extreme Home Tour, I met with a twitter friend, Gia Freer. Gia, a Florida real estate agent gave me interesting insights into the Florida real estate market.
Jeanette Fisher and Gia Freer
Meeting an online friend offline really makes the relationship special. The really great thing about meeting Gia in person was to see her eyes sparke when she talks about her love of real estate. She enjoys the business so much, she and her partner created a unique website because she wanted to connect with her clients using social media. The result, The Web’s First Interactive Real Estate Property Search and Social Networking Site, RealSeekr.com gives agents, home sellers, and buyers the ability to connect in real time. Buyers can chat, text, or call home sellers and agents immediately without waiting to go through countless phone calls.
After my breakfast meeting with Gia, I met fellow travelers for a bus ride to meet Frank McKinney and see the $29 million dollar”green” house. I’ll blog more about this glorious estate home later, but I wanted to share what I learned about Frank’s friends who were touring the mansion and the houses they built in Haiti. There were over 50 people who supported The Caring House Project. Most of them were real estate investors. What amazed me was that the Canadians and investors from Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Chicago, New York, Nashville, Dallas, Palm Beach, and Dallas still actively flip houses.
These investors were receiving text messages and phone calls about houses all weekend. They really didn’t do anything differently from other investors that I know who flip houses. They just don’t let the media and negative scare tactics deter them from making money in real estate.
I’ll blog more about the Haiti trip. The posts will go on the blog that matches the content. #1 can be found on The Bamboo Women Blog.
Joy~
P. S. Download my free ebook on Flipping Houses.


