Flip Your Life: How to Find Opportunity in Distress--In Real Estate, Business, and Life

ISBN: 0306830876

Author: Tarek El Moussa

HGTV star real estate investor Tarek El Moussa--known to millions of people worldwide who continue to devour episodes of Flip or Flop, Flipping 101 with Tarek El Moussa and The Flipping El Moussas --reveals how the grounding principles that make him such a successful house flipper are also applicable to improving our personal lives. Tarek El Moussa is everywhere, with 1.3 million engaged social media followers and numerous hit HGTV shows including Flipping 101 w/ Tarek El Moussa as well as the new HGTV docu-series The Flipping El Moussas, where he combines his passions for real estate and family in every project. With over a decade of experience, flipping close to 1,000 properties, selling over 1,000 houses, owning multiple apartment buildings and self-storage facilities, El Moussa is a successful entrepreneur, real estate expert and investor. He has a personal rental portfolio of over 200 properties, a wholesale real estate company, a fix and flip real estate company called Tarek Buys Houses, a private equity investment firm called TEM Capital, a production company called Homemade Productions, a real estate education company called Homeschooled by Tarek, and a solar company called Solar Vision. It will surprise Tarek's fans to learn that it wasn't an easy road to the top. After seeing a promising baseball career end before it even began with a devastating shoulder injury, a young and aimless Tarek had no clue what he wanted to do with his life. So, he drank. Finally, one night, Tarek decided not to drink, and instead stepped outside to look at the night sky for the first time since he could remember. That was when he decided his life needed to change--a lot. And fast. In Flip Your Life, Tarek uses his story--that of a lost young man trying to find his way in the world-- to take us through the steps of how we can achieve our own goals. Whether in real estate or life, Tarek reveals his proven four-step process: Evaluate Emulate Renovate Duplicate In chapters such as