在“妈妈炒房”系列中，一对母女俩诺埃拉·科菲(Noela Coffey)和卡拉·巴顿(Carla Barton)探讨了在炒房盈利过程中的期望与现实。对这对搭档来说，这一过程中最大的误解是什么?为什么提前做计划如此重要?他们学到的最大的教训是什么?他们最终归纳总结了4点注意事项：
1. 真正用心提前计划
听起来似乎很简单，但科菲和巴顿给未来的炒房者的第一个建议是，花点时间来制定预算和你将投入到这个项目中的工作时间的粗略工作时间表。巴顿说：“你真的需要弄清楚，这是不是一个有利可图和值得的翻新吗?这房子有什么改造计划?目标是让租户来租房吗?如果是出售，你将如何销售?计划真的能提前回答其中的一些问题。然后帮助你决定这是否适合你。”
科菲补充说:“没有提前计划可能会导致更多的问题。这真的十分重要，因为变化和修改实际上会让你在未来的项目中付出比项目开始时更多的代价。”
2. 一定要选择正确的住宅来翻新
选择正确的住宅。风格可以很容易地更新升级，但是房屋的主题结构很难更改。巴顿说，在她想要翻新的房子里，有一个她一直在关注的特征：自然采光。她说：“这是你无法从货架上买到的东西。你可以改变厨房，可以改变浴室，但你无法制造自然光，也不能改变自然光。”
她说，翻新时要注意的另一个特性是结构。她说：“我希望它有良好的公共空间。因为是否有充足的空间是你无法改变的。我认为这一点非常重要，因为随后你所要做的就是添加你想要的装饰。”巴顿和科菲的房子碰巧位于悉尼莱希哈特自然保护区，科菲说，这大大增加了时间消耗和成本支出。她可能不会再去翻新这种类型的房屋。
3.这个过程比你想象的要困难得多
两者都强调翻新的过程比你想象的要复杂得多，耗时也长得多。巴顿说：“这不仅仅是翻新。你必须具备良好的项目管理技能；如果你要出售，还需要良好的设计技巧；良好的沟通技巧。”她还说：“有时候装修在电视上看起来真的很蓬松，感觉只是走进住宅挑选一些漂亮的瓷砖，涂上颜色，但其实整个过程中还有很多其他层次的东西需要考虑。”
4. 注意每个细节是关键
最后，巴顿和科菲说，关注细节对最终的翻新结果至关重要。科菲说：“每一件小事都会影响到最终的翻新结果。装修过程的每一个阶段都是细节见分晓。”巴顿说，她一直热衷于恢复传统细节和原始风格。她说：“我的个人风格偏向于传统与现代的结合，这种合并的风格会给房子增添了一层温暖的感觉。”
科菲说，她们翻新的房产都拥有漂亮的原始细节“漂亮的高踢脚板和非常精美的吊顶。并且一些耗材公司能够定制模具，与现有的结构完美结合。我们不需要把旧的装修部分拆除，再换上新的部分。我们能够最大限度的保存原始设计。”
Expectation vs reality: What we learnt flipping a home In the third instalment of our Mother Flipper six-part series, mother-daughter design duo Noela Coffey and Carla Barton look at the expectations vs reality of flipping homes for profit.
<Intrim, Aug 27 2019> What were the biggest misconceptions leading into the process for the pair? Why was it so important to plan ahead? And what’s the biggest lesson they learnt?
Here’s what they said:
1. Take the time to really plan ahead
Sounds like a no-brainer, but Coffey and Barton’s first tip for future house flippers is to take the time to work out your budget and a rough work-back schedule of the man hours you’ll be putting into the project.
“You really need to work out, is this going to be a profitable and worthwhile flip?” Barton says. “What’s the plan for the property? Is it to put tenants in to rent? Is it to sell and if so, how are you going to execute that?”
“Planning really answers some of those questions for you upfront. And then helps you decide whether that’s the right property for you,” she says.
Failing to plan ahead can result in a lot more issues down the track, adds Coffey: “It’s really important, as variations and amendments can actually cost you more on a project in the future than from the outset of a project,” she says.
2. Be sure to pick the right property to flip
Choose the right property. Styling can be easily updated, but the bones of a property are harder to alter. Barton says there’s one feature she always looks for in a home she’s looking to flip: natural light.
“It’s something you can’t buy off a shelf,” she says. “You can’t change light. You can change the kitchen, you can change the bathroom, but you can’t manufacture natural light.”
Another feature she says to pay attention to in a flip is structure. “I want it to have good common spaces, well-kept areas – things you can’t change,” she says. “I think that’s really important to get right. Because then [all you have to do] is add on to that with all your finishes.”
Barton and Coffey’s house happened to be in a conservation area of Sydney’s Leichhardt, which Coffey says added significantly to the time factor and cost. It’s a home type she likely wouldn’t choose for a flip again.
3. It’ll be A LOT harder than you think
Both stress that flipping is a lot more involved and time-consuming of a process than you’d think.
“It’s not just about renovating,” says Barton. “You’ve got to have good project management skills; good styling skills if you’re going to sell; good communication skills.”
“Sometimes it can look really fluffy on TV and [you get the impression] it’s just about coming in and picking some nice tiles and paint colours, but there’s a whole other tier of things that go into it,” she says.
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4. Attention to detail is key
And finally, attention to detail is paramount to the final flip result, Barton and Coffey say.
“It’s every little thing that adds to that,” says Coffey. “It might be the skirting – making them higher. It might be the cornices that add more detail. It’s all of those little things that make a difference.”
Barton says she’s always been passionate about restoring traditional details and original features. “My personal style is probably a mix between traditional and contemporary,” she says. “Merging styles brings an added layer of warmth to the property.”
Their flip property had beautiful original details – “nice high skirting and really nice architraves,” says Coffey – and Intrim Mouldings was able to make custom new mouldings to marry up to the existing.
“We didn’t have to take those off and put new ones on,” says Coffey. “Using Intrim, we were able to remain sympathetic to the original design.”
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