Every Home Remodel Makes THESE 3 Noob Mistakes.

All right, welcome back to another one

of those real estate videos. I'm going

to do a little bit of a new verse pro on

this one. So, a lot of y'all watched my

real estate video yesterday and you're

like, Kevin, this like back to the good

old days. Can you give us some more noob

verse pro advice on real estate? And I'm

like, I mean, I guess I'm going to be at

the properties anyway, so I may as well

do it. So, I thought I'd do a few new

vers. So, let's just get started. So,

first thing, number one, if you're going

to do landscaping, get weed barrier.

Highly recommend. Okay, the noobs,

they're like, "Oh, hey, how much to do

grass and mulch?" And then they get a

price. They don't even ask about weed

barrier. And then they get mulch down

and then a month later it's full of

weeds cuz you get new sprinkler lines

in. So, you're literally aggravating all

the seeds that have been there for

years. And then you're like, "Oh my

gosh, I got all these weeds.

Did you ask for weed barrier? You know,

so so new verse pro lesson one, ask for

weed barrier. Lesson two, let's go into

the property. So lesson number two here,

uh, this one's obviously still in the

works. There's it's a little messy, you

know, get over it. It's construction

site, basically. Uh, lesson number two

is if you're going to do a remodel,

start with the ceiling fan boxes.

Everybody screws this up. I've screwed

it up myself as well. And sometimes I

still do, [laughter] but I try to get

pretty good at not doing this. Start

with the ceiling fan boxes. What does

that mean? All right. So, a lot of the

1950s,60s7s,

certainly even older homes, they don't

actually have ceiling fan boxes. And you

can't just throw a ceiling fan up into

any b, you know, bedroom or whatever.

You got to actually have it be a ceiling

fan box that is mounted to the ceiling

joist because this thing spins. Can you

imagine that? And that tears and when

people put this stuff into drywall

eventually it just falls out and it

kills people. Yeah, people have died to

falling ceiling fans. Okay, that is the

newbie method. Okay, so newbie method

one is you don't have a pro install your

ceiling fan like an electrician. Great

liability release by the way. Number

two, you decide later you want the

ceiling fans after you've already

painted and then you end up getting a

bunch of holes because they got to cut

new holes for the ceiling fan. So then

you end up getting a hole here and a

hole there and then you got to come back

and patch it. Looks like crap. So do

that early. Okay, we did it early here,

which is great. Now, the next thing

people were complaining about yesterday,

they're like, "Gavin, [clears throat]

you you just glazed the countertops for

the bathrooms." And, you know, one I

can't remember where it was, but anyway,

I'm like, "Yeah, because see, here's the

thing. If I go in and I replace a

vanity, and sometimes it makes sense to

replace a vanity, but you have to know

like if I go to replace this crazy

corner vanity, first of all, how am I

going to get something that fits there?

I can't get a new corner cabinet unless

I like custom make some L-shaped thing.

Like, that's crazy. It's one thing if

you've got a regular rectangle vanity

that you got to put in, you know, a

single sink vanity, you could get one

for like 250 bucks. get you want a

double sink vanity. They got gorgeous

ones for like 700 bucks. It sounds like

a lot, but they're actually really good

deals because you're getting new

drawers, new hardware, uh new doors, new

countertop, new like it's all part of

it, right? It's like a vanity kit from

Lowe's is actually really good money

spent. The problem is when you have a

funky setup like this, sometimes you're

better off just leaving what it was.

Now, it's not done yet. you know, this

this you still need the light fixture

and stuff, but when you leave what you

have, the cool thing is you don't mess

up all of the drywall behind it and you

don't have to move the plumbing. Imagine

moving the plumbing for this. What a

pain in the butt that's going to be. How

much damage I'm going to cause. It's

just going to cause headache and I don't

like headache. Headache means money and

I want to save money. I don't want to

spend money. But look at this. It is

dirty right now. Obviously, the

landscapers are using it. But this

actually looks kind of cool. Where are

you going to get a built-in sink like

this that looks like a clamshell with

beautiful new matte black hardware?

You're not You're certainly not going to

get a countertop like this unless you

spend a fortune. So, I'll put up the

before picture of what it was. And then

when you look at the before picture,

you're like, "Oh man, you know, that

looks like you should tear it out." And

then you look at the after and it's

like, I mean, that's dirty and it looks

good, right? So, what's it going to look

like when it's new and pretty and

gorgeous? I'm walking in on myself.

There we go. Uh obviously uh it makes

sense to glaze. So what is glazing?

People like what? Like I had one guy, he

left a comment. Well, I also had this

plumber. Apparently this one plumber guy

like Kevin, you replaced the Bradford

water heater with an AO from Lowe's. How

could you do that? Why didn't you leave

the old one? It had the flashing green

light. And I'm like, [snorts]

listen, bro. Okay. Just cuz it has a

flashing green light don't mean it's

good. Flashing green light means the

thermalouper is working and there's gas

flow. It means it's heating. It's like

heating a pot on on a stove. Guess what?

I could turn an engine onto a car or the

fire onto a cooktop, but the radio might

not work in the car, right? Just cuz the

engine works doesn't mean the radio

works. Or vice versa. Just cuz the

radio's broken doesn't mean the engine's

broken, right? Vice versa. Just like I

can put a broken pot, I like this

analogy better, on a cooktop and if I

put spaghetti in it, it leaks everywhere

over my cook top. Doesn't mean the

burner is not working. The green light

just tells me the burner's working.

[laughter]

You know, it's like, bro, if you look at

the video, you got rusty water in the

tray. You got to replace it. You know,

you hand over a 10 in a rusty water

heater. Come on, man. Out of your mind,

bro. So, I don't think he was really

paying attention to the video, but I,

you know, I listen to the comments and I

read the comments. Oh, I'll say another

pro thing. remind me to say something. I

mean, how are you going to remind me?

But remind me to say something about

that flood light right there. But

anyway, [laughter]

so you know, people leave these

comments. I was like, "Ah, listen, man."

Okay, people are like, "Oh, Kevin,

you're just painting these cash." No,

you call a professional glazer.

G L A Z E. You should know about

glazing. Okay. Anyway, it's great.

Tiles, old countertops. It looks great.

Now, something that I did right here,

glazing, pro move, okay? Don't be a

noob. You saw the before and after. Uh,

now something you'll notice right here

is I got a flood light that I put right

there. I originally put that flood light

here. I didn't install it yet. I just

put the box there and then I'm like,

wait, I shouldn't do that. Because if

you put flood lights on the sides of

your property, noobs do this all the

time. They put flood lights on the sides

of the property. Your neighbors get

pissed when you start shining flood

lights into their backyards. So, don't

be that, you know, don't be that noob.

And then you see what's missing up

there, right? You should already know.

Leave a comment down below. What's

missing every single freaking property?

I don't know what it is. I feel like I

can just make a living going around

replacing these things. Like every house

I buy, it has one missing. It's It's

amazing how few of them actually have

them. It's crazy. Uh but anyway, you

know, that's something to keep in mind.

Now, another thing that you're going to

notice about how we're designing this,

if you look, can you kind of see the

setup we're using here? Okay, I'm going

to give you a prospoiler tip right here.

Pro spoilers. All right. Uh, first quick

pitch. If you haven't gone yet, dude, I

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It's reinvest.co house hack.com. I'll

talk more about it in a little bit, but

I'm like, "Oh my gosh, are we like an AI

company now?" Like, we're making more

money off off the AI product than we are

off rent. [laughter] It's like, wow,

what am I out here working landscaping

for? You know, and and we're doing

renovations. Let's just do AI. Oh my

gosh. I I that's not ever going to be

the case. I'm always going to do real

estate no matter how well things go. Uh

or poorly. We'll always do real estate.

Can't take You could take What is it?

You could You could take the real estate

What's the What's the saying? You could

take the Kevin out of the real estate,

but you can't take the real estate out

of Kevin.

I'm going to run with that one.

[laughter] All right. So, pro tip back

here is uh this is a big backyard. I

don't want to do too much grass on this

one. Generally, I like to limit my grass

size. Went a little above and beyond on

one of the grass properties yesterday.

I'm like, "Ah, we could have probably

done some more mulch here." But, we're

going to do mulch and rocks and a little

bit of grass. Doesn't need to be that

much grass all the time. So, you know,

keep that in mind when when you're

looking at uh uh properties. It'll keep

your cost down. It'll keep your

maintenance down, keep your mowing costs

down, uh, all that good stuff. Now, um,

something else that I like to do, this

is sort of a little bonus over here.

This used to be a wet bar. I actually

put a quartz countertop over this. We,

uh, painted the cabinets that were

there. And I like to get rid of wet

bars. It's another sink. It's another

faucet. It's uh, more maintenance. And

to me, I actually don't think they

provide that much value to most people.

Now, I prefer to have that space for

like a little workstation or mail or

whatever it is. So, I typically find wet

bars are majorly underused and not worth

the extra maintenance, the extra

potential plumbing leak, and all that

nonsense. So, we typically get rid of

them, but hey, maybe you got a different

opinion. Of course, you do you, as we

like to say. Now, this is a property

where we did end up doing new boxes, new

cabinets, as you can see. Uh, and we did

that up front, so we didn't make it a

little oops dupy. We did that up front.

The reason we did that up front is

because the cabinets that were right

here were so rotten and gone that by the

time we took those cabinets out, the

other ones were falling apart. I mean,

you'll see on the in the picture and

it's like, oh yeah, probably a good

idea. [laughter]

Uh, so those are just a few lessons uh

that I wanted to give here. Trying to

think of another one. Oh, uh, I try to

leave nothing up to speculation for the

electricians. So, like I put that light

in a box right there. And I do that

because I'm like, "Hey, I don't want

there to be any confusion around what to

do." Oh, he's doing some selfies. Look

at this. He's got shout out to selfies,

bro. [laughter] That's awesome. Uh, but

anyway, um, that that way there's no

confusion and people aren't installing

things in the wrong place, you know?

It's sort of like, I guess that light

fixture goes right there, you know? Sort

of like light fixture goes right there.

[laughter]

Nice and simple, right? So, a big fan of

that. Keep it simple for your

contractors. Keep it simple for your

vendors. Uh, and everybody wins in, uh,

in that situation. Now, uh, listen,

regarding the reinvest AI, a lot of

people are wondering, okay, Kevin, like,

can you give me like the highle pitch of

what's going on here because I'm

confused. There's a lot going on. All

right, super high level. There's the

real estate, uh, you know, the

coursework, the stock coursework, the

alpha report, all the courses and that.

That's all at meet.com. Yeah, there's a

Black Friday sale for that as well.

Okay, that's all at me Kevin.com. That's

one thing. Gets you all the courses, the

morning live streams, the course member

alpha reports, all that. Okay,

separately. House hack and reinvest.

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the AI product is that instead of you

scrolling through a million different

websites all the time looking for deals,

whether you're a homeowner or you're an

investor, the app helps prioritize which

deals you should consider looking at. At

first, we're just going to letter grade

properties. And as we release more

updates, uh especially in 2026, we're

going to include our valuation AI where

we actually come up with our own sort of

version of this estimate. like we don't

even want to touch this estimate. I

think this estimate is is bad and wrong.

I'm not trying to shade on Zillow, but

it's totally different. We then look at

images and with our own neural nets

based on my training decide here's how

much we think the renovation's going to

be. Here's how much we think it's going

to cost to transform the property.

Here's how much net worth you we think

you could make if you buy the property.

Make these basic fixes

and don't overspend. That's the whole

purpose of the product. So, uh, uh, you

know, hopefully that adds a little bit

of, uh, insight and color because I know

that that can create some confusion for

folks. Uh, but I mention it because I

get it like there's there's a lot. You

know, it's like, ah, okay. I mean, these

are like three different products. Yeah.

Trust me, that's why we did the Meet

Kevin membership and put them all

together into one on meet.com cuz it was

like nine different courses cuz we got a

new one coming out right now as well.

And the new one is included in

membership. It's all, you know, one

thing, so it makes it nice and easy.

But, uh, but anyway, yeah, let's wrap up

over here. Let's put all this back

together and then move on to, uh, our

next stop. But these are some new VPro

lessons. One thing to know about, um,

neighbors and neighborhoods is what I

really love and what I find that

neighbors love is that neighbors love

seeing money get invested into

properties. uh as long as you're not

working at crazy times. So, noob first

pro tip, and this is something a lot of

people forget, and as a thank you for

making it to the end of the video, I

want to uh mention it to you. Don't

start working too early. This has

happened before, but if you have a

contractor that starts at like 6:00 a.m.

or something like that, it's a good

chance you're going to piss off your

neighbors. And if you piss off your

neighbors, you're more likely to get

complaints with the city or, you know,

whatever else it is. So, just something

to keep in mind. Don't start work too

early. Respect those neighbors. All

right, folks. I'm off. See you in the

next one.