“Teen Mom OG” stars Farrah Abraham and Amber Portwood are furious at each other over their ability to flip houses. Farrah said all sorts of things about Amber while promoting her recent appearance on Marriage Boot Camp. She doubled down on her remarks implying Matt Beyer is a pedophile, then mocked Amber by saying Portwood looked like a “cheap whore” in a wedding dress with pink hair. Last week, Farrah posted a photo of herself with Simon Saran and their kids in front of a boarded-up house, bragging about her house-flipping skills in the caption, “Already a fan of house…
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“Flip or Flop” stars Tarek and Christina El Moussa have signed on to star fully in the next season of the hit HGTV show. The announcement that the host and ex-couple were returning to the home improvement series came amid their highly publicized divorce following a domestic dispute last spring. When the pair announced their separation in December after seven years of marriage, reports surfaced that the future of the HGTV series was uncertain and that its seventh season would be cut short. HGTV has ordered a massive 20 episodes for the seventh season, more than any previous season of…
There have been rumors for some time that Farrah Abraham and her partner Simon Saran might expand their reality TV resume into the popular home flipping genre. The rumors gained further momentum over the weekend, when Farrah posted a video and some photos of the couple filmed at a property in San Francisco with the hashtags “#houseflipping” and the network's “#hgtv #mtv #fyi #fbf.” She also used “#beingsimon,” which naturally led people to wonder if MTV was giving Simon the same courtesy of a special that they showed Amber Portwood's fiancé, Matt Baier. We spoke with an insider who has…
Now that she's back on the market, one thing is clear: the star's physique is far from in need of repair.Christina El Moussa stunned people while hitting the beach in Hawaii on Sunday.The 33-year-old renovation expert jetted off to Maui to spend Easter with his children, six-year-old daughter Taylor and one-year-old son Braydon. Hot mama! Christina El Moussa stuns on the beach in Maui, Hawaii on Sunday The family spent Sunday morning meeting the Easter Bunny and hunting for sweet treats, but after the kids were all exhausted, Christina took advantage of the kids' nap time to enjoy some solo…
If you thought the Teen Mom OG stars were only on MTV, think again.Stars Macie Bookout, Amber Portwood, Farrah Abraham, and Catelynn Lowell have come a long way since starring on 16 and Pregnant. Before the show returns to the air with all-new episodes on Monday, April 17, let's find out what jobs the four main cast members are actually holding in 2017.Maci BookoutMaci was briefly featured running her husband Taylor McKinney's clothing company Things That Matter on last season of Teen Mom OG, but that's not her full-time job; off-camera, her pride and joy is a social media marketing…
What is a Flip? A flip generally refers to a dramatic reorientation of an investment positioning from long to short. Depending on the context and type of investment, the word “flip” can mean a variety of things. There are at least four different examples: technical trading, real estate investing, initial public offering (IPO) investing, and professional fund management. Key Takeaways “Flip” is a term that has multiple meanings in the investing world. Technical traders might change direction and modify a trade based on price movements. Real estate investors might flip homes that they've only held for a short time. IPO…
What is Bi-Strip-and-Flip? Buy, strip and flip is a phrase used to describe the common practice of private equity firms buying undervalued companies, spinning off their assets, and then quickly selling the restructured company in an initial public offering (IPO). Key Takeaways Buy, strip, flip is a phrase used to describe the controversial business practices of some private equity firms. These investors buy undervalued companies, extract value from them, and then quickly sell them in an IPO. The primary objective is to line the pockets of the private equity firm as much as possible, as quickly as possible. Not surprisingly,…
Just because Southern California home resales dropped off in 2016 doesn’t mean there weren’t rapid home purchases and resales in various local areas.Atom reported that 11,148 homes were resold in the four-county region last year, a 3 percent decrease from 2015. Resales accounted for 6.8 percent of all sales in the region.Below are Orange County's top five ZIP codes for home remodeling according to ATOM, along with 15 surrounding ZIP codes. All saw 10 or more home remodels in 2016, ranking them among the top five areas in the county for the highest percentage of home remodeling transactions as a…
As the stars of HGTV's “Flip or Flop” get divorced, the network announced plans Wednesday to expand the popular home renovation series to other locations, including Chicago.A rep for HGTV said “Flip or Flop Chicago” is in the early stages of development, starring Mark and Liz Perez, a married couple from Southern California who appeared in the “Chicago Flippers” pilot that premiered on HGTV last month.A representative for HGTV said “Chicago Flippers” will now be called “Flip or Flop Chicago.” A premiere date for “Flip or Flop Chicago” has not been announced.The Las Vegas version of the series is set…
Key takeaways Wall Street has begun partnering with tech lenders to package loans to home flippers into mortgage obligations (also known as mortgage-backed securities). Securitizing remodel-and-resale loans will accelerate much-needed renovations of America's housing stock, but for some it also harkens back to ill-fated financial innovations of the past. Real estate agents and other professionals can take advantage of this trend by forming referral partnerships with remodel-and-resale lenders. Wall Street and new online lenders are bundling loans to home flippers into renovation-and-resale mortgage obligations, giving hedge funds, private equity firms and other institutional investors a new way to invest in…