Back to Basics: Furniture Flipping for BEGINNERS | How to Make Money Flipping Furniture

Furniture Flipping Teacher
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Hey guys, welcome back to Furniture Flipping Teacher. It's Lauren here.
So I was out for the day and I had Neiman's car and I swung by and I picked up some awesome
nightstands for $10 for the pair from Facebook Marketplace and luckily I had just enough room
for these nightstands and I just want to show you guys how easy it is to get started even if you
don't have all of the tools. If you've got a little small car, I want to show you how easy
it is to begin furniture flipping. So let's get these guys unloaded. So knowing that Neiman has
a pretty small car, just a Chevy Cruze, I knew that when I was looking on Facebook Marketplace
I was gonna have to get something small if I was going to get something. But even though I was
limited with room, I wasn't limited on my piece because I can still flip these nightstands for
a great profit even though they are smaller. I tried to fit both of them back there in the trunk
but there wasn't quite enough room so I utilized the front seat. You gotta do what you gotta do.
If you've got a small car, it's not an excuse not to get started furniture flipping. So like I said,
I got these for $10 on Facebook Marketplace. So when I loaded them up in Neiman's car,
we sparked an idea that we wanted to show you guys as beginning furniture flippers that it
is easy peasy. And these were a perfect piece to show you guys the four Ps of furniture flipping.
That's right, the four Ps of furniture flipping. Neiman and I were talking, discussing content
ideas, and I spurred up this thought and I said, wait, piece, products, process, and profit. So
those are the four Ps. Stick around and I will explain every single P. We started with the piece.
The piece does not have to be a big buy-in. You don't have to spend a whole bunch of money to
get quality furniture. You also want to be looking for smaller pieces when you're starting out
because if you're going to go for a huge dresser or a kitchen table or a chest or whatever, those
are just too big to start out. If you're learning, you need to start smaller. So that's why I knew
these two nightstands would be perfect to show you guys how to get started. So now that we've
talked about the piece, we've got to talk about the products next. That's P number two, products.
So for products, I thought that it would be fun if we headed out to a home improvement store Lowe's.
I personally do not shop at Lowe's. I've been there a few times, but I don't get my materials
from there. So I wanted to put myself in your shoes. Maybe you've never been to a home improvement
store and Lowe's are everywhere. So you guys can find a Lowe's. I'm going to go to Lowe's and we're
going to pick out some products. I'm going to be specifically looking for furniture painting
products like paint, sandpaper, primer, a brush, and so on. So we're going to head over to Lowe's
and see what we can find. All right, so we made it to Lowe's here and this is my first time looking
for chalk paint, furniture paint, anything like that at Lowe's. I've been here before, but generally
Menards or online is my go-to for the furniture paint or the chalk paint. But I wanted to do some
unfamiliar territory because some of you guys are just starting out and I wanted to show you that
beginners can find what they are looking for anywhere they go. I'm going to check out what
they've got for furniture paint, chalk paint, and the like. All right, we checked up and down a couple
aisles and we finally came to the cabinet and furniture paint. They've got some Krylon and
they've got some Valspar, which I've seen people use both of these brands and so I'm familiar a
little bit, but I personally have never used those before. So the Krylon is chalk paint and that is
about 20 bucks for a 32 ounce can. And then they've also got some spray paint colors and such. And then
you can also tint the colors if you would like. You can do dark tints, light tints. They have
tints at the counter. And then the Valspar down here is some cabinet and furniture paint. And
this isn't chalk paint. It's a little bit different than something that I've normally used.
It's $25, but I know that there's a mist tint area. And so I'm going to check that out before I
even grab this. I just want to see if there's any colors up there in maybe the cabinet and
furniture, maybe the Krylon that got mist tinted. Mist tinted just means that someone wanted a color
but then the people accidentally tinted it the wrong color. So they put it in this little section.
They've got that at Menards, Home Depot, Lowe's, all of it. And if it's got a mist tint, it's marked
way, way, way cheap. So I'm going to go check that out before I grab this. But I think no matter what
I want to go with the Valspar, it is $26. But keep in mind that with the Valspar, you don't have to
have a top coat. You don't have to have the primer even. So keep that in mind. I always like to prime
to prep right, but you don't technically need it. Let's go check the mist tints. Okay, so this looks
like their mist tint section. Usually it's going to be right next to where they mix the paint.
So I'm going to check out and see what they've got here. Lots of just interior, exterior paint,
primers. Oh, magnetic primer. Interesting. Okay, so they've got things like ultra interior paint
and primer. I personally wouldn't recommend doing the latex paint just because it's not really meant
for furniture. Let's check this one. Oh, cabinet and furniture. Now we're looking for a neutral
color because I'm going to be doing those two nightstands and I want them to sell quick
and I want them to be very modern. And so, oh, this color is a gray. Gray is neutral.
So do you see that? $2.50 or a brand new can that I can choose a color for $26.
I think I'm going to go with the $2.50. That is going to really help me with my profit later.
So always check out the mist tint. It might not have it, but any day they might make a
mist tint. So might as well check it out. Now we need some brushes. Okay, so there's so many
brushes to choose from. And really right now we're just trying to go cheap. Brushes matter,
but if you're just starting out, I would recommend just getting kind of a cheaper brush
to see if you're going to continue to stick with it. I personally like the angled ones and the
short ones that you can just hold on to in your hand. These ones are cool because you can just
open and kind of check it out, give it a feel. This one says that it's specifically good for
latex stains and paints, which this isn't a latex paint. So I mean, I think it would still look
fine. I would recommend just kind of going with a cheaper brush. This brush is $6.50. So I think
I'm going to go ahead and grab this brush and this will be good for the entire nightstand. I don't
need more than one brush. Obviously, if you're going to continue to do this and you want to be
more time efficient, you can get the furniture brushes like Zebra is a really great brand.
You can find those at Home Depot or online, and they have tons of different styles of brushes
that help you get into corners that help you get in around spindles and different things like that.
But to just start out to keep it cheap, we're going to go with a $6 brush. Okay, we're going
to check out the primer now. And I know that I said that this paint doesn't need primer, but guys,
you have to prep your piece well if it's going to hold up well. So I say when in doubt, prime it out
because it's going to help the paint stick on there much better. Now, obviously primer is going
to be a little bit of an extra cost for us, but that's going to help us not use as much paint.
And in the long run, when you're selling these pieces, you want them to be durable and quality
finish. So we're going to go and check out some primer. The primer was just an aisle over. So we
found it here pretty quick. And they have got Kills primer, and they've also got some Ben primer.
So for the Kills, this is going to be... Okay, so if it's water-based, then that does not have
shellac in it. And the shellac is really going to help you block your stains if you've got solid
wood. My pieces are not solid wood, so I'm not worried about the stain popping through. However,
I just always like to grab the shellac base because if I need it on another piece,
then I have it already. And it's right around the same price. It's $10 for an entire can. You
will not use an entire can on one piece. This is going to be an additional cost, like I said,
but it's totally worth it, and it's necessary. Then I also like to go and grab a cheaper brush,
like a dollar or two, that you can just toss because primer is pretty hard to clean up when
you're using the oil-based. You can use ammonia and all of that, but I just honestly like to
toss it after one or two uses. It's $3, but that's fine. Another thing you might need for
your furniture flipping is wood filler. The particular pieces that I'm flipping are really
low maintenance, which I would highly recommend when you're first starting out. Not only did I
get them for cheap, but I got them and they are in really good shape, so they don't need a lot
of work. But if you are going to replace the hardware or anything like that, you need to grab
some wood filler as well. I'm going to skip this step, but that's an option as well. The last thing
that I'm going to check out is the sandpaper. All right, sandpaper. You can choose to invest
in a sander, or for your first flip, maybe you just want to get some sandpaper, maybe a hand
sander. So this actually is really cool. It's a hand sander and it rotates. So kind of grab it
like that, and then if you want to go this way, you could do that way. If you want to go this way,
but that way, that's kind of neat. And you just attach the sandpaper there to the bottom.
We want to talk about grits of sandpaper. What you're going to want to do is if you're trying
to strip it down all the way to the base level, you're going to want to use a smaller grit. So
a 60 to an 80 grit of sandpaper to strip everything down if you're trying to remove the finish. If
just starting out, I would recommend that you don't worry about removing the finish,
but you just work on scuff sanding. Scuff sanding is just going to get that top layer off and scuff
it up a little bit. Make it a little bit rougher so that the primer can adhere to the piece. I'll
show you what I'm talking about a little bit later and I'll go into more depth about the sandpaper
grit. But I think today I am going to grab this, which is $10. So this one actually comes with a
120 sand grit, but there's only one piece in there. So I'm going to grab some 120 to replace when I
may need some more. And then that's all we got. So we've got sandpaper, a hand sander, a couple
brushes, some paint, and some primer. Let's go check out how much damage we did. So this should
just be the 250 because it's a mist tint, this one. All right, we got the goods. All right, so
we made it back to the car, but let's just talk about all of our pricing. So you guys saw the
total. It was $38, but she did actually ring up this one as a full price. And then I kind of
pointed out that it was $250. But with the full price, our whole bill would have been that $61.
And guys, $61 to get started with furniture flipping really is not that bad. Even if you
had to grab some wood filler and some top coat, you could still keep your cost under $100
to get started. And these materials are not only good for one project, but they should continue to
last you through at least two or three. And then once you get the profit from your first, second,
and third flips, you can continue to reinvest that money into your business. And then you won't be
spending any more of your own money. It's just a really small investment up front to continue to
earn more and more. I guess at the end of the day, she did end up giving me this for free because
I had told her, oh, it was $250. And she's like, eh, I'll just take it off. So I got some paint
for free today. That was totally accidental. That could happen to any of you. If it happens,
then that's awesome. So it's even less of an investment up front. We're going to head home
now and get started. All righty, we are back from Lowe's. And I just want to do a quick recap of the
products that we picked up. So I got the paint, cabinet and furniture paint from Valspar. Never
used it before. Ended up getting it for free. Also got the primer. And that is just going to help the
paint adhere. We got a hand sander and some backup sandpaper. And we got two brushes, all for just
$38. And again, if we would have paid full price for this, our total would have been right around
60. With the $38 spent at Lowe's and the $10 with the nightstands, that puts us at a total of just
$48 that we are invested into this project. And our goal is to keep it the lowest cost possible
because we want to earn back our investment as well as earn enough profit to continue investing
it back into our flipping business. It's time for P number three, the process. Let's flip some
furniture. First step in our process is to remove the hardware and clean. I didn't pick up Dawn dish
soap or a screwdriver at Lowe's because I figure that most of us have some soap and a Phillips head
screwdriver. If you don't have that, then you can pick up a pretty cheap screwdriver at Lowe's as
well as some Dawn dish soap. When you're picking out your cleaning product, you can do Dawn dish
soap because it is a grease cutter. You can also do any other grease cutting cleaners.
Let's get this hardware off. If you have a drill already, that would be a little bit of a faster
way, but I know most of us have a screwdriver. So that's why I am showing you that it can also
be done with that for the hardware sake. I am going to actually be replacing the hardware and
I picked up some hardware actually off of a previous piece of furniture that I flipped.
So once you continue to get some flips under your belt and maybe you start replacing some hardware
that you buy online or that you find at thrift stores or the restore, you can also reuse different
hardware from previous furniture flips. The best part about the hardware that I'm going to be
putting on this is that I got that piece of furniture for free, so therefore the hardware
was free. If you haven't already, be sure to go check out the entertainment center video that we
did last week and I got some burlap and I just transformed that look completely. That was a
really fun flip, so check it out if you haven't already. Okay, now that we've got our hardware off,
we're going to set that aside and then we're going to get to cleaning. So like I said, I'm going to
be using some Dawn dish soap for step number two of the process. I got some warm water in here and
then I've got a bucket. I use this two-sided bucket because it's nice to have a clean side
after you clean the first time and then you can go back and rinse. If you just got any bucket or
even a bowl laying around your house, that will be perfect for cleaning. The reason we want to clean
is because you normally get these pieces off of Facebook Marketplace or thrift stores
basically secondhand. So if you're getting secondhand furniture, you have no knowledge
of where it was before, so you need to get all of that dirt, dust, grime, and everything off
so that the paint can then adhere and then so that you know that you are going to be selling
clean furniture. Okay, so now that we've got everything cleaned, we're going to go back and
rinse and that's where that second side of the bucket comes in. Now these nightstands weren't
too dirty, so our water's not very dirty, but that soap is still on our piece so we need to go ahead
and wipe that off with a clean rag because we don't want our paint sticking to the soap either.
We want it sticking to the actual surface. I'm really happy with the way that these nightstands
look because they really don't need a lot of prep work. You want to start out with an easy piece.
We're going back to the P for piece in the beginning because I forgot to talk to you guys
about how these pieces are going to be easy to flip because there's minimal work that needs to
be done. I've sometimes gotten into the thought that I just need to get a piece of furniture and
it doesn't matter how much work it has, I just need furniture, but then those pieces just take
forever to fix and all that stuff and so if you're just starting out, just go easy on yourself. Get
something small. Get something that doesn't need a lot of work. A lot of repair work just takes
longer. Starting small like this will help reduce the discouragement that might come along with more
and more prep work and more and more repair work. Okay so we've come to step number three of the
process which is to sand it down. There's a little bit of water damage on the top of this nightstand.
It's really hard to even see but there are some bumps and you can feel this by just running your
hand over the top of the furniture. These nightstands particularly are not solid wood so it's
pretty common that they get water damage on the top and that can be solved by just a light sand
on the top and then put some primer over it to block in those particle board pieces and then
it'll be ready to paint. So I've got my hand sander that I picked up from Lowe's and it's got the 120
grit which is a medium grit of sandpaper and that is going to be perfectly fine because I'm not trying
to take off the finish. I am just trying to smooth out where there were some water stains. You might
use an 80 grit or a 60 grit which is a heavier grit of sandpaper if you're trying to go down.
If these were solid wood and I wanted to save this and I wanted to get the finish completely off
then I would use a lower grit of sandpaper but since I'm just trying to do surface level things
a medium grit will be perfect. When you start to sand on these particle board pieces it will really
show you where the water damage is and so you just need to really make sure that that gets
all smoothed out before you put any primer on. Okay and not only am I going to sand down the top
I'm also going to scuff sand the sides and a scuff sand just means that you're kind of going to
smooth everything out roughen up the surface just a little bit because when it's so smooth it's
really hard for the paint to adhere but if you give it a little bit of texture that primer and
paint will adhere much better. Prep is going to be your best friend when it comes to furniture flipping
because if you don't prep your piece correctly it's not going to be as durable as it should be
in the long run. If you guys have any questions about the piece, the product, the process so far
let me know down in the comments. I will do my best to respond to every single comment and help
you guys out because I truly want this to be a beginner friendly video and I am here to help you
and answer any questions that you've got. Now's a good time to go ahead and take the drawers out
and set them aside to get ready for priming.
We're all sanded down so now we've got to wipe back all of the dust that the sanding created.
All right so as a beginner you might want to protect your workspace so you could just grab
some old cardboard everybody gets deliveries you may have some old cardboard or an old sheet or
whatever you want to do to protect your workspace. I've got these nightstands on here
and I've got the drawers out so we're gonna prime. All right so we've got our Kills primer that we
are going to use to prime these guys and I have a little fancy paint can opener that you can get for
like 40 cents at a hardware store. If you don't have one you can always use a flathead screwdriver
to pop it off. Open up our brush so here goes step four prime time. All right step number four
of the process is complete. I really barely even used any primer about that much so this $11 can
is gonna last me for multiple projects but we'll still factor in the price of the whole can since
I did buy it for this project. This particular primer needs about an hour of dry time before we
put any coats on it so we're gonna let that dry. We're back to step number five because the primer
is dry so we've got to do a light sanding to smooth everything out before we get to the paint.
One thing that I did forget to grab while we were at Lowe's was a little bit of a finer grit of
sandpaper and this is just a sanding block that I recommend you also pick up. It's a fine grit so
it's above a 180. I believe this is a 220 sanding block and what that is going to do is that's going
to smooth out the primer so that we can kind of eliminate all of the texture that's on there
and get it ready to paint. All right and once we've got the sanding done we'll go ahead and
use a rag and wipe back all of the dust that was made. We are ready for step number six which is
to paint. Painting is my favorite part and I think that you guys will see why when you guys get
started flipping. It's really truly the part where the pieces or piece that you're flipping
transforms into its new identity and its new life and its new look so let's get some paint on it.
So we are on to step number six painting. If you remember I got this paint at Lowe's
and they ended up giving it to me for free. I was really planning on going with a neutral color
when I was originally thinking about what design I wanted to go for on these nightstands
so I was super excited when I found this mist tint color in the mist tint section. It is a gray and
it kind of looks like a little bit of a medium gray. It's not too dark but it's not too light
so I'm excited to pop this can open and check it out. Oh and it's kind of almost looks like a gray
which is like a gray and beige color but we'll see actually when it's on the piece and when it
dries what the true color is. One thing I recommend you get is a paint stir stick. They've got these
smaller ones or they give them to you for free if you get mixed paint at the hardware store so
definitely pick some of those up and then grab a separate container for your paint. I use cottage
cheese containers. They also have specific containers that look just like this at paint
stores that you could also get and then you want to just separate your paint so that way no foreign
objects get into your paint can and then I've got my brush that I picked up at Lowe's as well.
Alrighty we're ready to paint. Depending on what type of paint you use you'll either water it down
or not water it down. This specific paint is not chalk paint or anything like that so we won't be
watering it down but we'll just be painting it straight on as is. So let's check it out.
When you're painting a part of the process is to go all in the same direction. You know at first
you can kind of start to go this way but make sure that you always come back over your top and
paint in the same direction because if you do end up with some brush strokes which is gonna happen
then you want them to be all going in the same direction not a bunch of this
like you painted it. You want it to go on nice and smooth. This paint is definitely a different
consistency than I've ever used before but it's nice I like it. It goes on nice and easy nice and
smooth and then it looks like it might even be pretty much self-leveling paint so that means
that it'll kind of even out and have less brush strokes which is always a plus when you are
looking at paint. All right we're almost done here with the first coat and just one thing that
you really want to be careful with when you're doing the first coat and even the second coat
is to be watching out for any drips that you may see because drips can definitely cause issues and
then you have to sand and repaint and all that stuff so really try to avoid those drips and you
just basically need to kind of go slower especially when you're first starting out so that you can
see what you are doing. Our first coat here is finished. We've still also got a little bit of
primer propping through which is okay. It gets worse before it gets better trust me. I was there
I was like what in the world but I promise it gets better the more paint you put on the better it
looks so we're gonna let this dry overnight. It's getting dark sometimes flips can only take
one day but sometimes it may take two days. Over time you'll get faster and faster. Be gentle with
yourself. Be patient with yourself. Don't expect to get everything right on the first time. We'll be
back tomorrow for coat number two and that is going to be step number seven of p number three
the process. We're back for step number seven which is going to be the second coat of paint.
I actually put my paint inside of a plastic bag so that I didn't have to pour this back in the can
and I also saved my brush. I really hate washing brushes so I try as best I can to save the amount
of times that I need to wash and you can do that by eliminating the air that gets to your brush
putting it into a plastic bag or even a grocery sack. That will help eliminate the air flow to
the brush and keep it nice and wet. Before I get to coat number two I'm going to take my same
sanding block that I used earlier for the primer and I'm going to smooth out everything and then
we'll get on to some paint. You really on coat number two need to focus on going in the same
direction with your brush. You do in the first coat as well but this second coat you need to be
a lot more careful with how your finish looks meaning everything needs to go in the same
direction. All right coat number two step number seven of the process is complete and now while we
wait for this to dry we're going to go check out what hardware we're going to put on it.
Got my hardware stash here whoops and so like I said before I am going to be utilizing some
hardware that I got off of a free piece of furniture that I flipped a couple weeks ago
so it looks like this and I love this classic nickel brushed nickel feel of the hardware.
These knobs are pretty neutral and can be used with white black gray anything. I thought about
actually spray painting it which is another tip that I want to tell you. If you have hardware
that you like the look of but maybe you want to change the color you can always spray paint it
with the Rust-Oleum spray paint. There's metallic colors which is kind of the look of hardware and
you just put a little top coat spray paint on it as well but I've got my four hardware pieces right
here and we're going to go ahead and attach them for step number eight of the process.
Usually step number eight would actually be the top coat but since the top coat is built
into this paint I'm going to skip that step so step number eight is the hardware.
Take the drawer so I like to go ahead and slide it in nice and carefully line it up on the tracks
perfect and then we will take the screws put them in and get them started here
put that drawer in same thing with drawer number two. Alrighty step number eight is all finished
so we're on to step number nine of the process which is staging. When it comes to staging you
don't need to go all out if you're just starting out I would recommend you just take some things
around your house that will kind of match and complement the piece that you painted so for
instance I grabbed a lamp I grabbed a plant and I grabbed a book and I grabbed a house so it's
nothing crazy I'm just gonna stage it to where it's again not too much because the point of
staging is simply to allow the customer or the buyer to imagine it in their own home and that
it's not just in the in someone's garage with a whole bunch of stuff around it if you have a nice
background even if you don't have a staging wall like I do you can just do any blank wall in your
house and then you're gonna want to take some photos. The most important part of photos is to
have excellent lighting usually the daylight is the best type of lighting for taking pictures of
your furniture so for example today is an amazing day for taking photos because the clouds are
masking the sun just a little bit giving us that soft light we don't have any harsh light coming in
harsh shadows on our pieces so we are getting some excellent lighting in here soft light is
great for capturing the even lighting on your pieces which then helps show the true color and
again people can imagine it in their own home. When you're taking photos you really want to focus on
as many angles as you possibly can you want to stage it and take the photos and then you want
to unstage it and take more photos you want to open up the drawers and take photos you want to
take photos of the top of the sides prove to the buyer the potential buyers that there is nothing
wrong with the piece there's no scratches there's no dents the doors open nicely etc etc the more
information the better the more angles the better. Specifically on Facebook marketplace you can only
post 10 photos and I recommend that you try to utilize all 10 of those photo slots so that they
can see that these two pieces are the perfect match for their home. All right and now we come
to posting so step number 11 of the process this is the last step before we get to p number four
which is my favorite well I already said the painting was my favorite but the profit that is
the best part of this guys so the one thing that I'm going to tell you that you have to have when
you are posting it on market is to measure you have to have the measurements of the pieces
there's a couple of reasons first reason is so that they can see if it's going to fit in their
vehicle and the second reason is so that they can see if it's going to fit in their space
if it's not going to fit in their vehicle maybe you could offer delivery if you have a vehicle
that could fit or if they don't then that would maybe turn them away from wanting to get these
pieces these in particular are small pieces so they should fit in any car as we showed you in
the beginning but you always want to have those measurements because maybe it's too wide to fit
next to their bedside and so on and so forth so 20 23 by 16 so when you're posting you also want
to make sure that you give them the most information that you can about the product
personally I do not say that it is a refinished piece of furniture if they specifically ask in
a message then of course I'm not going to lie but I don't see any reason for you to say
that this is a refurbished or this is a painted piece or anything along those lines just display
the images and give it a description so for instance these I might say these are a perfect
addition to any bedroom or bedside and it is very neutral and they are gray perfect for a modern
home smoke free pet free etc etc etc the more information you can give them again is going to
make that decision for them so much easier in the end they can decide if they want to buy it or not
based on the information that you give them I've got our photos up here and then you're going to
title it so I'm going to title it nightstands probably two nightstands you want to kind of
give as many possibilities so someone might type in end tables or bedside tables etc so that is
another thing that you can do is kind of give it two titles now we've got to talk about the price
so all in I'm at $48 again I didn't use all of the materials that I bought at Lowe's and I'm
going to be able to reuse some of those but let's just say we're $50 in on these two nightstands
let's think about how long it took me these two nightstands all together took me just about two
hours to complete from start to finish between cleaning priming painting all of the above
two hours so if I am trying to shoot for a specific hourly amount then I can gauge my
price on that hourly amount when you're first starting out you might try for 20 to 25
for an hourly rate when I am or when you get more and more experience you can kind of continue to
up that price right now I like to try to get around 30 to 40 dollars an hour so that would
put these at 60 to 80 dollars on top of the material price so 50 plus 60 that's 110 or 50
plus 80 that is 130 dollars however make sure that you're not under pricing the item that you have
nightstands at least in my area go pretty fast and they can go for a little bit of a higher price
than 130 when you're first starting out you're probably going to under price yourself and that
is totally okay I know that a couple of people got some really great deals when I was first starting
out I think that I am going to be landing around the 175 area for pricing these that gives me a
bit of room I say price a tad bit higher than maybe your bottom line that way if someone asks
you to go lower you can do that you can never go higher but you can always drop the price so I'm
going to go ahead and post these for 175 today and we're going to give it a couple of days and
see what happens I've got a bonus p for you guys patience unfortunately I was unable to sell these
nightstands before the video launched however this just brings a perfect situation when we
need to practice patience it is probably the hardest most frustrating part about furniture
flipping and it has nothing to do with actually flipping the furniture you have to be patient
patient patient I have patience but when it comes to the furniture flipping it's really hard for me
to be patient I just get so antsy and I'm like why isn't this selling and I want to drop the
price right away well that's not always going to work either to be honest I tried dropping the
price of these nightstands a couple of times and right now they're sitting still on Facebook
marketplace at 125 dollars they've been listed for two days and apparently the right buyer just
hasn't seen them yet but you have to stay patient because the right buyer is out there I promise you
guys sometimes these flips take hours to sell sometimes these flips take days sometimes it
takes weeks and I've got a couple of pieces that I've even taken or are taking months to sell and
that is okay because if you're willing to and you have a little bit of space to keep and hold on to
these pieces in order to get your right price you're gonna have to wait and that is all right
for me I have a general guideline that I need to leave it on Facebook marketplace listed at the
price I had originally for five days before I go any lower that gives it a little bit of time to
have people see it and then just if even if people save it it gives them a little bit of time to go
back and be like hey I actually did want that or whatever the case may be being patient with those
five days and then you can gauge it do you think it's gonna sell usually lately I've been seeing
that week days are the times that people are buying and you can kind of just gauge that in
your market continue to test out your market be patient you will get that profit and I hope you
learned a lot there's a lot of beginners out there and we really wanted to break it down
I hope you enjoyed the four p's if you guys enjoyed the four p's and want to kind of get
it broken down a little bit more in a little bit more compact format I've got a link down below
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