The TikTok House Flippers Drama Is Absolutely Wild
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You have to check out (@MoMahal) Mo Mahal she is a diyer that literally steals her neighbors trash then "improves" it (she isn't very good at it) then shows them and it's embarrassing because you can tell they really don't want it back but feel obligated, one neighbor even had something out for sale she stole redid and even after he said he was planning on selling it to make some money she asked him on camera to donate it to someone "in need" and ofcoarse he isn't going to say no with a camera in his face
I’ve mounted many a light fixtures. It looked like the faux beam initially has wooden supports anchored to the ceiling which the beam is then anchored to. So if they did a solid anchor point and mounting the fixture framing to those braces was done correctly, from a structural standpoint I don’t see why it would be an issue. I would have repainted the beam with a matte color personally because the sheen to it makes it look like a poorly decorated cake. Also I agree I would try and knockdown quite a bit of the grout and bring back the majority look of the originally stone. As the highlighted comment noted as a flipper you primarily want potential clients to see a canvas they can paint their own vision on. Over-stylizing the home definitely narrows your potential market pool and will leave the house on market longer forcing you to reduce the price as the longer it sits, the more out of pocket expenses to the flipper.
lol whoever moves in next will probably think they did that to the fireplace cause it had cracks and leaks or problems
Yeah. Florida sucks. Saw my first KKK rally there. And flippers? Destroying old homes? Kind of crappy.
The worst part of flippers is most of them cut corners and then up the price sooo much for a shit job
Thinking this way makes me sooo angry. My offer would be like $1,000 (that’s even too much). It looks like shit and like you said they cut corners.
@@suavesweettthen you wouldn’t get the house lmao… why even try to buy it if you’re gonna out that little up?
Exactly!
What blows me away is how they openly put their hack job online, so any perspective buyer already knows how cheap and shit their work is. Assuming they are blind and couldn't otherwise tell by looking. But I digress. Lol.
When we were buying a house a while back, 6 years or so, we came across so many like this, and they would often list their homes at nearly $100k higher than the most expensive houses in the neighborhood. Sometimes more. And, five years later and damn near $200k shaved off their original asking price, and still not one single offer. Because they destroyed these homes trying to make a quick buck, and unfortunately dragged down the value of other homes in those neighborhoods as a result.
If people like this have a humiliation kink or something, they should just find a sex dungeon. Because it's way cheaper than this. 😂
I can’t stand all of these get rich quick “entrepreneurs” who have popped up thanks to all of the info available on the internet
She says she was turning the fireplace into a cottagecore aesthetic, but it already did! That fireplace looked just like the cottagecore dream people think of. She modernized it by turning it uniform and white
Exactly! It looked exactly how you would imagine a cottage fireplace would look- dark, rustic and 'homely'. They're completely ruined it and at this point, the future owners are more likely to rip the fireplace out because of how awful it looks, rather than keep it as part of the home. Genuinely saddened by what they've done so far.
I think they were trying for the fairy tale cottage look except they failed…badly…
@@Aethian If I'm going fairytale cottagecore, I'm bringing out the pastel paints and not white honestly.
@@spoopyvirgil4944 Very true. Personally I would go for light oak and ivy. But then I want Grandmother’s Cottage not Witch that eats Children.
Yeah this is a 60 year old home with pipes that should have been replaced ten years ago but we LOVE when poo goes out the seams of the pipes, why replace them?
"this house needs a lot of work" house looks absolutely perfect except for the tile floor
That's called never living in an actual fixer upper lol
@PearlOfEgypt. I've lived in a lot of fixer uppers. This definitely isn't that bad. The kitchen appliances looked almost brand new. A bit of paint, new flooring, and it was fine. I've even lived in rentals that aren't in as good condition as this!
Also, I give the beam six months before it rots completely in the Florida humidity!
I don’t live in the U.S. but my current house, a rental, it’s in way worse shape than that house 😂
You should have seen my grandma's apartment from the 80's. That one actually was a fixer-upper. There were still a lot of people interested in buying it because of the location.
@samanthafairweather9186 For real, this place is gorgeous.
Some people don't know what it's like to live in the middle of a fixer upper. Or just dealing with no stove and air.
I'm not gonna say anymore.
But FR!!! THAT FIREPLACE DIDN'T DESERVE THAT 😭😭😭😭
The “wood” beam looks like a fucking cheap ass jerky stick I’m losing my mind
Big ass tootsie roll XD
I just died lmaoooo yes it does
Slim Jim style
It looks like a paper mache beam they'd have on a Power Rangers set
looks worse than some cheap aquarium decorations
my problem with most house flippers is that they buy affordable homes that are safe to live in and only slip a bunch of “ upgrades” so they can jack up the price!
She said that the seller wasn’t selling it to first time home buyers… go after the people that sell these homes and make it hard for regular folks to buy them… mostly massive billion dollar companies.
That's why I like that one home reno show on Discovery+ - they buy actually rundown houses that aren't really safe to live in, fix it up to make it livable while leaving the house basically the same style so it fits in the neighborhood and will be affordable to the people who live in the area.
And it’s always cheap ugly stuff.
@@FrenkTheJoy Is it in Detroit? Detroit has an abundance of absolutely beautiful old Craftsmen houses that have been treated horribly through the years.
@@TheQueenOfShebaNah, there’re all to blame. It’s a shite practice and flippers end up making these places unliveable because they’ve no idea what they’re doing on top of it all.
FOAM anything in Florida is the stupidest idea I've ever heard of, let alone mounting a lighting fixture to a faux wooden beam made out of it. Someone please report them to the local building and code inspector before they sell this place and kill someone with that chandelier.
One would assume the lamp is actually bolted/chained to the ceiling and not the faux beam. But now we now what the cost of living in Florida is. It will cost you your good taste it would appear.
@@ralfvandeven3155 nope. Floridians have taste. It's the transplants that come here from everywhere else that have no taste and think we have no laws. Honestly, we Floridians are sick of it. Everyone is mad at Trump about the border wall, but Floridians have wanted one across the state line for decades. If I hear "well we do it differently in " from one more transplants, I might start boxing them up and mailing them back.
@ralfvandeven3155 At 2:32, we see the original fixture in the home - a ceiling fan, correctly mounted with a drop pole. At approx 6:38, we can see the round hole in the ceiling where they removed the old fixture and a wire dangling. We see some sort of wood brackets for the foam piece to attach to, but nothing permanent (or to code) for the new light fixture. It appears that they've mounted the light fixture to the foam, with the loose wiring hidden behind it. Super ghetto. 😅
God can you imagine how quickly that foam is gonna mold?!? Florida can be super humid and with the mold they've already covered up too... These people are a botulism
@@9sheri9I assumed some support because I can't imagine screwing the mounting plate on foam holding long enough to finish a tiktok.
i had nothing against house flippers until they did it to my childhood home and made everything grey 😭 now i understand the outrage
The fact that it has been financially destroying the economy and hosuing market for years, making houses unaffordable should be what concerns you. Not because its not ugly, and oyu don't like the aesthetic. Its crazy people don't care about these things unless its aesthetic related, and not the people dying from exposure on the streets because they can't get a home.
for context on my random quick thought I left as a lighthearted quip on a video: specifically in MY situation, I didn’t understand the outrage about /aesthetic/choices, which was most of what was talked about in this video, and I had no personal stake in the game till it happened to me.
I TOTALLY understand your outrage over the ridiculously inhumane state of housing in America, but given the fact that I can’t turn back time and change my understanding of the economic inequalities of the world at fourteen years old, telling someone how they should feel or retroactively understand is kind of useless in this situation and your outrage is misplaced on me as someone who not only agrees, but has been personally affected by it
@@lunova6165chill dude. Someone can be upset about a particular thing while also being aware of other issues.
Someone bought my great grandmothers home and I am genuinely scared of what they did to it. She had a MASSIVE stone fireplace and I have a feeling they probably destroyed it.
Well it’s a childhood home to YOU but it’s just a building hush 😅
That beam looks so god awfully cheap and cartoonish. The fireplace also looks awful, should’ve painted it all white if anything. Idk, their style isn’t really giving what they’re trying to achieve here.
Right, and like, the bean doesn’t even match the ugly fireplace too. It looks weird together
I’m seriously questioning if they even have style…
I know it’s subjective, but they just keep making so many bad mistakes.
I see what they were going for with the fireplace, and i think it could have looked good, but they used WAAAY too much grout.
Honestly in the sunroom monstrosity they don’t have a couch but instead picked an old church pew!! That’s all you need to know about corners they still cut without and personal style. Even in their own home!
@@devlintaylor9520 the technique is called the German Smear if anyone seeing this, wants to see what it was supposed to be. when done right it looks amazing.
if you look at a lot of the examples, they are uniformed fireplaces.. the stones dont stick out from each other, they are all.... uniformed. flat. it just looks incredibly odd and badly done on this. especially where theyve messed it up and not wiped the face of the stones properly so it legit just looks like you wiped it on and went cool beans.
I love how they said they wanted to “keep the 70s charm” but then proceeded to call everything DATED
As a microbiologist, I am dying a little bit over "a quick easy google search would tell you there is no such thing as non toxic mold🤦♀ " because....a quick easy google search would also tell you that most molds are harmless? You should definitely remove any more in your house and not require simply on sampling. Dont ever risk your health or even just the integrity of your house. But the majority of molds absolutely are non toxic.
Though if we want to be pedantic, no molds are toxic, they're toxigenic. They produce mycotoxins as a byproduct of chemical metabolism. The mycotoxins are what are harmful 😁
thank you
Lmao I also just said this. It's actaully so simple to see that most mold to most people is not that big of a deal. I am allergic to mold so unfortunately even the mild stuff is enough to leave my head feeling like it's about to blow up and cause nose bleeds but like...whatever it's a good indicator to find it and destroy it.
She said let me EDUCATE
That comment confused me as well. I'm curious if they just straight up lied about Googling it, because I don't know what they could have Googled to have come to that conclusion.
black mold is a big issue in florida, they will be lucky if they dont get sick because of their stupidity eventually.
Why do all these TikTokers sound the same? They have the same tone of voice and same cadence when explaining things.
Same reason all news anchors sound the same.... There is like this new tiktik accent & it's so unnatural
I think it’s a certain type of person who puts themselves on TikTok to begin with. Ego centric lololol
@@sdg2450and there’s also the ‘CZcams’ accent
Which the TikTok accent seems to come from
There’s a linguist on TikTok that actually explains this! It’s the influencer accent and it’s used to keep people watching their videos. There a specific cadence and everything. It’s wild.
If you sound different you wont go viral or gain a following.
My sister and brother in law literally got their house because the lady who sold it didn't want flippers to have it. She and her husband had spent their entire married life in that house, but she just couldn't keep up with it anymore after he passed. She wanted it to go to a family, not people who were going to destroy everything about it to make money (it was very common in that area to completely tear down the original house which was usually a small one story and replace it with a huge McMansion as the area it was located in was very popular). Seeing what they did to this house, I can absolutely see why.
The previous owner of my house said the same thing to me. He'd rather sell it at a discount to someone who he knew wanted to love it and live in it rather than do it up and sell on. I'm still here nineteen years later!
My parents were the same way with my childhood home. Their reason however was they wanted the house to help a young person starting out with a house they can afford. They didn’t want to be like other sellers their age who tell young people they don’t need a house with 5 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms without giving them the option of buying something smaller and cheaper.
The woman in the apartment next door to me spent the entire evenings and weekends for half a year ripping out everything in her apartment and replacing it to flip it. I really hope the people that move in don't do it all over again... She hasn't managed to sell it yet
I remember years ago my MIL went to look at a home that she loved but didn't think they d get it as lots of people were wanting it. She was surprised when the owner called her up and said she'd be happy for them to live there. Apparently other buyers told her they would change this or that, or rip out the fireplace. Her and her late husband had spent their lives there and she was devastated when they said how they would change it.
I used to be a carpenter, and SO FEW people understand the actual work that goes into *truly updating* and renovating a home. My boss used to say that the only thing “flippers” actually do is flip the cost to the next homeowner.
(Also, just because you think some decor is cool does not make you an actual interior designer. There are actual principles and reasons behind what they do.)
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Certified Hardware personnel here- I’m terrified for the unknowing potential buyers to live in that living room… Even IF she used screw anchors- that ‘beam’ is foam and will not take that weight of the lamp- it will fall eventually, and honestly I’m surprised it actually stayed up??
Other concern is the glued-on ceiling board. Yes, glue can be secure- but screws and mounts are the safe route in this situation.
Obviously, they’re working on this house for profit- not to make a comfortable/safe home for a potential buyer. My mother also has 30+ years experience as a realtor- and I can’t imagine this home would do well on any sort of property inspection. Even if it does sell- the buyers can still come back and make them fix these mistakes.
That’s why it pays to actually plan/think ahead 🤦🏻♂️
"Measure/plan twice to do it once" is a saying from my country that immediately pops in my mind.
EXACTLY!! We just flipped an old house from 1875 that my parents bought as well as a tiny home & I can’t imagine making ANY of these decisions and thinking “hey you know what would be a good idea?”
the glued-on ceiling board is so weird to me, like wouldn't it be cheaper to just use nails and screws??? Than slapping a shit ton of glue?
i worked in hardware for about 10yrs.. i am assuming the fitting is screwed through and anchored to the ceiling, invisibly, but i don't know for certain. what i do know is that foam beams are flammable, they're polyurethane. so toxic when burnt, and even to some extent when warmed up. and wiring can heat up. in my country, lay people aren't allowed to install electrical work. who knows if they've done any of their wiring correctly to begin with, let alone whatever is going on inside the mystery beam.
@@ichmeiner4531It exists in english too “measure twice, cut once”
That fireplace is a crime. And hiding the mold should REALLY be a crime. They did not fix that mold. They don’t want anyone they’re selling to to know. They are not experts in mold.
I'm curious as to how they have lived their for years with no problem?
@@Ashbrash1998 mold doesn’t immediately affect people unless they have a severe allergy. it’s a gradual process, and by gradual i mean decades lmao- it will make you sick after you’ve been inhaling it consistently for a long time, but you wont die. the reason why black mold is so dangerous is because you won’t know you have an allergy until you come across it. and it could be difficult to spot even for the people who are aware of their allergies. so people with allergies can easily die before anyone thinks to check. you don’t just inhale black mold and say “this is mold!” no it takes a long time to notice it lmao
so unless you have an allergy you won’t notice for a very long time, the previous owners probably had no idea. the fact that they just covered up the mold really should be illegal, it’s an insane safety hazard. plus mold can cause structural damage too, so the fact that it was on the ceiling is even more wild-
@@Ashbrash1998 Because it's probably non-toxic mold. Which is, in fact, a thing.
It goes beyond bad DIY interior design. House flippers are a massive problem in the US, they are buying up real estate and destroying it, then selling it to people at extortionate prices. The houses they sell are in terrible condition because they DIY them with horrible quality materials and shoddy build, they're a big part of why the US housing market is a mess. So people are understandably mad at them.
Edit: when she says the house they bought was "cash only for investors" and therefore not their fault for buying it, the reason the market is offering so many properties cash only is because of house flippers like them.
And cash only doesn't mean you have to be an investor, or "it definitely wouldn't have been bought by a homeowner anyways" tons of people buy cash only and are looking for a fixer upper to actually live in. This is exactly how I bought my first home.
It makes no sense to do that to the fireplace “to lighten it up so it matches the flooring” then put in a dark faux beam. The beam would have actually matched the old fire place much better & with the huge windows, bringing so much nature in from outside, keeping the fireplace more natural looking would have been the way to go.
They obviously don’t have any decorating sense because the first thing any professional worth their weight in salt would have done is to recognize the windows & what they bring into the home & enhance that, instead of jumping on a trend that’s going to be outdated shortly & poorly executing it at that. Such a shame
That dark beam killed me. you want to lighten up the room by killing a lovely unique fireplace, but then put something that darkens the room immediately after.
omg, thanks for pointing that out. aiii this whole thing is painful
Exactly!!
We are a military family, and we were searching for a new home in our new area that we had moved to, during the home inspection everyone gathered in the main living area that the flippers had added. The home inspector comes running back inside, and tells everyone to get off the floor immediately , the floor we had been standing on, was made with particleboard, and was being held up by cinderblocks. Yes we were standing on particleboard with a layer of carpet over it. They had pictures of it sagging where we were all standing, and where the couch was sitting. I will never trust a flipped house.
It [the fireplace] looks like a cake that broke into pieces and someone tried to put it back together with frosting?
Yes! A cake mosaic lol.
It's like someone forgot to finish it
They dirty iced it before the fondant.
@@KaiaMirelesa cheeky crumb coat situation
Agree as a former cake shop owner.
It looks like a turd on the ceiling. Wtf? There is REAL wood, that is light weight, that they could have used.
Foam is cheaper. More profit. And it's easily glued on, wood would need a structurally sound fixture (?, don't know if that's the right word), which takes more time, effort and knowledge to install correctly.
Right?! I was thinking the same thing! They literally make faux beams made out of real wood.
Plus, they’re in FLORIDA!!! It gets hot and humid in the summer, there’s hurricanes, shits gonna get damn and moldy real quick
We had a “faux beam” in our previous house and it was 3 long planks nailed together to form a U and painted a dark color so you couldn’t tell that it was 3 separate pieces from a distance.
That would have been so much more stable and look better than this foam.
So, when they choose to sell the house to someone, they better be transparent about the materials they decide to use for those "wooden" beams and not charge the house as if they were real wood.
If I was a buyer and walked into that house and saw that "beam". I would know it's foam, they ain't fooling anyone. That's the worst part...
@@fallen0star996 exactly. If it looks bad on video, it looks worse IRL
It will end up molding to hell because it’s Florida, they won’t be able to hide it.
They def aren't gonna tell anyone. I can promise that.
Just because everyone has access to paint and filler, doesn't mean you have the taste or design knowledge to claim to be an interior decortor or flip houses 😭Designers and artists take courses to learn the basics of design and aesthetics before being allowed near a paintbrush or room - this video is proof why.
They are probably selling this house for more than most people make in 5 years in corporate & there’s a fire hazard foam beam on the ceiling 🤡
I don't agree with what they've done but truthfully alot of insulation is flammable and real timber is also a fire hazard.
@@AlterEgo373 Oh for sure. I just think if you have the money to remodel a house, you should use the best materials available. My Great Aunt had foam beams in her house that was built in the 70’s - I think it’s time to let those die out lol
They murdered that fireplace. This is criminal. It was absolutely beautiful before. If you wanted to transform it, then clean up the rock with some bleach or something. And make the fireplace the focal point of the room like it was supposed to be. Don’t put up ugly beams and destroy a perfectly good fireplace. It was Absolutely beautiful before. All the house needed done was cleaning and maybe some new windows and making sure the plumbing and electricity was up to code. And then sell it. It was gorgeous. And anybody looking at an older home wants that older charm, if they don’t, then it should be their choice on what they do.
Agreed. Taking a 70's house and throwing out that great kitchen isle? What if the next people want a 70's kitchen isle? They can never reproduce that.
General Contractor here! Unfortunately, we won't really know if the foam is fire rated or not, but there are foams that are safe to use for building purposes! A lot of materials used in the home building process are actually very flammable (i.e., wood studs, gypsum wall board, foam insulation, etc), but these products are treated and come with a fire rating represented in hours, typically. I would suggest that this couple get the technical information of the product and include it in a package to any home buyer.
In the case of the beam, though, my personal concern is more for the integrity of the light fixture secured to the beam. Unless it goes through into some kind of blocking in the ceiling, the weight of that fixture probably won't hold onto just foam, even if it's a high density foam.
Why didn’t they just have the grout professionally cleaned?
Agreed. Just cleaning that up would have done a lot
Because they're flippers, they'll do anything to save a penny and then pass on their shit work to whatever unsuspecting sap they can con into buying the place
@@sarahamira5732 my brother in law is a flipper, he gets the professionals in when he can’t do something because he’s not an idiot.
That or They could have just done a new coat of grout in a brighter colour, but these dumbasses used mortar 🙃 i paused the frame of the bag and it's MORTAR
What I hate about these "house flippers" is they don't seem to be working on these houses to restore them to a liveable state or improve them. Instead they're treating it like an arts and crafts project where they're just putting together the most random things, cut/pasting things improperly, and its just like a kid gluing together whatever at an art&crafts camp.
I'm by no means a professional (though I did learn carpentry in high school) but I physically cringed when I saw she was wearing SANDLES while taking off that countertop. Closed-toed shoes at LEAST if not work boots!
if she’s going to make a shite house “design” at least wear closed shoes 🤦
@Coringle exactly. Open toed shoes/sandals is just ASKING for trouble
Im in Florida and no apology needed. Place is shite. People hate flippers not only because they destroy the character of homes but they generally leave them in unsafe condition and dont disclose things. They also drive up the cost of homes in some ways
I think you're the first person outside of Ireland I've seen use the word shite!
Omg… the absolute atrocity that is that FOAM BEAM. This is exactly why people hate house flippers. For cutting corners and “fixing” things in the most cheap, dangerous ways that will fall apart within a year.
Greeting from a german living in german. This "technique" actually happens when you remove something like something that was glued or whatever on it. Sorry not sure about the term to be used. But what they do to that poor fireplace is an absolute massacre! THIS IS NOT HOW YOU DO IT! Especially not with freaking silicon! Yikes....
German here, too. I just showed this to my 80-year-old German architect mother who had a construction company for many decades. Her reaction basically: LOL, wut? Old German technique used on castles? Bahahaha!
I think this might be an American case of "German chocolate cake", "German Christmas pickle", "German oven pancake", etc.
Used on stone rather than bricks, to me this looks like maybe something of an agricultural building in southern Europe - certain parts of Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, or Greece.
@@arnikakiani8014 genau so und nicht anders. Kenne das keinen ich nur aus alten Häusern wo der putz oder die Farbe abgeht. Ich kann nicht mehr. So kann man auch beschreiben wenn man keine Ahnung von sowas hat. Alleine mit dem schimmel ist schon heftig.
@@arnikakiani8014 It's basically what is left after old limewash (kalk farbe) is removed or worn away. It's not something that is ever intended, just something that happens. It's a bit like calling breaking dinner plates 'The Greek Ceramic Shard Design Process'. LOL. Tschuß! 🖤
Hey listen .. here in the US many things were made up and called "Chinese", "German", "Russian" or some other country to make it sound "exotic". My parents are from Guyana South America and the Caribbean. A few years ago, I saw something called "Calypso Rice" at my old jobs cafeteria. There's no such thing. Needless to say all of us Caribbean people were laughing hysterically at the audacity.
@@GothBoyUK that is exactly what I meant. Thanks for translating it.
It’s 2007 all over again! People who don’t have a clue about renovating giving it the ol’ college try thinking they are going to make $150k on a shit flip. Crash, here we come!!!!!
The “wood” beam looks like a giant slim Jim/jerky stick. Awful design 😂
I thought the same thing! Lol
The whole point of the German smear technique is to break the uniformity of the brick wall. The fireplace didn't need it at all! And that wooden beam just screams "kids indoor mall jungle gym" playground.
Most 20/30’s “flippers” are just buying with their family’s money and throwing up some paint and trying to stage… polishing turds. Literally adding no value. They hate when you tell them this at a showing too.
First thing someone should look at is location, foundation, and all the mechanical aspects of a house. I want this couple’s house featured on a Scuffed Realtor stream 😂
The thing is, mold is invisible in its early stages so her saying that they pulled out the patches with mold is a lie. They might have pulled down the visible mold, but there’s still mold in what was left if the mold was in the other boards. They’ve hidden the problem.
Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.
Also it kind of seems like these particular flippers actually CAN’T lol so who knows where their overconfidence is coming from
I am a retired real estate guy ... They really messed up in my humble yet professional experience. Looked fine before. Also its often a good idea to leave certain things to the future owner. If you paint you use neutral colors, etc..
They seem incapable of taking any criticism when they desperately need to. It looks horrible
Bleach or paint could have lightened up the fireplace without ruining it. They prove with this one project that they are not up for the job at hand.
I’m all for upgrading and modernizing a home…to a point. There’s a house just about in my backyard that they stripped every ounce of character out of the house, made me sad to see. These people have a very interesting “style” if you can call it that. The thing that stuck out to me was some of their wording. They used the foam beam because they couldn’t lift a real one? “You’re probably wondering how we’re going to redo the ceiling with just the two of us”. You shouldn’t be making design decisions because you can’t lift or move something yourselves, find some day help or some friends!!! Good luck to the future owners of those houses!
That reasoning stuck out to me too! Insane stuff
I’m sorry. Was she wearing sandals to move that heavy looking piece of kitchen table top? OMG! What is wrong with her? Closed toe shoes not flops for safety alone…. 🤦🏻♀️ I just can’t.
I gasped when she brought up German Smear with the fireplace.
I have NEVER seen German Smear with anything but brick, much less riverbed rock, and even then it looks horrible unless you let most of the original brick color come through.
They straight up lied about trying to clean it because it would have cleaned up fine if they actually tried. It wasn't even dirty (my old home had a similar looking fireplace)
Just because it’s DIY doesn’t mean it’s professional at all… i swear these tiktokers think they’re all experts. I could never take pride in shotty work
At first i thought the drama was because people just thought they were making ugly things, but not a bit of prevention and safety measures is s big no, no.
They've been popping out on my shorts lately. Next time i would click "do not show this anymore"
Same, all of a sudden popped into my shorts, even though I watch nothing else like it. I also thought the drama was because of style choices, glad to know it's more than that
Fl born and raised here: most of the people moving down to florida are older. It would be easy to trick them into buying a terribly redone house by spouting about how so much of it is "improved."
This is it, house flippers are essentially scammers. They trick people into buying "renovated" homes at absurdly high prices, they're ruining the market for actual home buyers.
In this case they would have to be blind...
@ralfvandeven3155 you'd be surprised... especially for people whose brains are deteriorating.
I agree! I live by the keys and this is def something I do see often.
As someone who lives in a "flipped" apartment, the quality sucks. Like yeah it may have looked nice when I signed the lease, but as soon as I did we noticed the cracks, literal and figurative. The kitchen counters are just a wrap of sorts so if you clean them too much or with the wrong soap the design just dissolves away. My bathroom ceiling tiles are not lined up and have massive gaps around the edges. There's faux foam white bricks in my kitchen that they attached a wooden table top to that was only held up by 2 skinny pieces of wood. Not attached, just kinda placed under it. Then there's the usual water damage, cracked paint, etc.
All this to say, whoever buys the house from them is gonna feel scammed real quick. It seems like most "house flippers" don't think about how the quality of the material they use is going to affect the people living there. Yeah, it'll look nice but it's gonna be destroyed by normal wear and tear. It may not be there problem at that point, and I don't see them changing their behaviors anytime soon, but who knows. Maybe enough people "bullying" them (and by that I mean pointing out what Markie and others have said about the quality) will make them change. Would they live in a home where the only thing holding up an entire light fixture is a foam beam? Maybe, but I'd lean towards no.
Anyways, fuck landlords and fuck most house flippers
You should have seen the fake stain glass stickers they removed around the same fireplace.💔 they ruined this house
I have a house that was built in the 1870s and I'm renovating/remodeling it myself. So many design choices are made to enhance the character. I dislike what they did and I especially dislike the confidence by which they did it. People like this are why bad renos exist. The arrogance of it. Also, if they weren't called out on the black mold just being covered up, how many people watching would think that's acceptable to just do?
I feel like they aren't really thinking about what the buyer might want. They are set with "This is what we like, and someone has to buy it at some point anyway,"
The interior designer inside of me just died and took the architectural history buff with it. They're going to end up causing a disaster.
Floridian here. The rumors are true...we're awful.
Not everyone can be an interior designer. I myself learnt a lesson when I bought a bunch of beautiful pieces of furniture, picked a good looking flooring, painted the walls nicely , but despite of the fact that each piece looked great by itself, all together the final result ended up pretty bad.
They should spend a part of the budget on an interior design plan and follow it to the T.
the foam beam with the light in it!!! oh my god the fire hazard!!!!!
I don't see how it's a fire hazard. No one's going to use incandescent bulbs in that, and if the wires are a hazard in foam, they'd be a hazard in anything and it wouldn't pass inspection.
@@Bacteriophagebs there is wires going from that lamp into the beam, maybe some kind of socket? Foam is extremely flammable, one sparkle from a faulty wire or socket and whole thing is on fire before fire alarms start to sing
@@badinstructor6806 Very few kinds of foam are flammable. Most of them just smoulder, especially with a small starter like a little spark. And if your wires are sparking at all, that's a problem that wouldn't pass an inspection, as I said, and would probably start a fire regardless because it would burn the wires' own insulation.
I grew up in a 1820's historical colonial that was under constant renovation/restoration (I'm talking hopping floor joists to get outside, being told to stand away from the house while my parents jacked the backside because it was collapsing, horse hair plaster) and having lived through that, a lot of these DIY home flippers are trying to do too much IMHO. Far too much to make it pleasing to a modern eye-- instead of just letting the house and it's quirks attract the right buyer. Having grown up with helping to move beams and lumber around--- I'd be so pissed if I saw that foam thing. Buy it cheap, reno on the cheap, sell it high with a tail light guarantee in the shoddy work.
But then how else can they pretend they earned all that markup on the house if they don't change every conceivable thing for the worse!?
Building code where I live states that ceiling mounted lighting devices should attach to an outlet box or a luminaire stud made of steel, iron, etc. Unfortunately, their "decorative foam" being used as a point of attachment would not fall into code at all. It shouldn't even be referred to as a "beam" because there is zero structural support provided by this piece.
*Everyone buying a home should hire a home inspector not connected to or recommended by the seller or realtor to help you avoid purchasing novice reno's like this one seems to be.*
Also, check reviews and past customers- cause whoo boi the guy we had was a doozie
The fact she said she was taking the green ceiling down because of mold (saying she wanted to keep it until they found it) and then just put a new beaded ceiling over it.
Re fire hazard, Polyurethane is a combustible material which will burn quick, emit dense smoke and toxic fumes. I imagine it's using LED bulbs so will unlikely draw enough current to be a real fire risk in the event of a loose connection. It falling, hurting someone, damaging property and exposing live conductors is a greater risk imo. Edit: An electrician btw.
My childhood house was flipped and turned from a beautiful historic home that was literally used in the civil war, to a grey and white modern nightmare. All the brickwork on the outside painted white. All the walls on the main floor knocked down for a “modern open floor plan” all the original hardwood replaced with grey faux wood tile. it hurt my heart so bad to see it like that
There's tons of people buying up houses and doing unnecessary "updates" like these. If it is a "cash-only investor property", you just fix the safety and structural issues. I bought a house for cash that needed work but with the intention of living there for the rest of my life. The kind of stuff that needs to be fixed to be mortgageable would be the leaky roof, rotten wood, and wiring not being up to code. Redesigning is just trying to make the house into the cookie-cutter HGTV house that realtors think everyone wants.
I clicked on this instantly bc I’ve met this girl before through mutual friends and follow her on social media and I recognized her face instantly. This is insane.
sorry but is she as annoying in real life?
@@mipsanwhen I met her she gave me really introverted vibes and used to sell candles with healing crystals. So I think part of how she comes off is just bc she’s usually quiet and a little awkward.
@@mipsanwell, we know now (thanks to Yviette! ) evidently her occupation prior to defensive online fireplace ruiner was candle and medical device sales (healing crystals count as medical devices, surely). Having known more than a few who have tried to convince me that some of their crystals could really work wonders for my incurable neurological disorder and I'm the only thing standing in the way of my own healing, I'm willing to believe she's annoying.
But I don't know her so I must allow the benefit of the doubt.
Tell your mutual friend to tell her she’s gonna lose her toes if she keeps wearing sandals while lifting countertops. She’s not safe.
@@Yviette”Candles with healing crystals” So that’s a yes on being annoying
Ugh I used to think house flippers were a good thing. Now they just cut all the corners and make shitty designs, usually ruining the very things that make the home feel like a personal space. Not to mention that they take all the affordable houses from the lowest incomes who are able to buy so there's nothing left for those to buy a house and get stuck in rentals that wind up being more expensive than if they could have bought that affordable house.
Yes, Im one of those. My man and I can only affoed the cheapest houses on the market, and before we even get a notification about a new house for sale, flippers have swooped in and bought it out from under us. It sucks to watch as all the small, semi-decent homes we could have had get the flipper treatment and then cost three to five times as much as it did the first time. Thank God we can rent way cheaper from my inlaws or we'd be in trouble in this market.
You didn't have to brag at the end sis 😢
She ruined an amazing fireplace over her craft project wtf 😂
The entire design looks cheap and this is coming from someone studying interior design 😂
So I showed your video to a couple mates of mine that work as a home improvement specialist; demolishing, refurbishing and replacing for ~10 years, and my electrician; he has been working in the field for about 8 years, to get their takes on the situation.
The first said that the German smear could have looked good if it was done right. The flaws were they caked the joining areas with the stuff and didn't really balance out the darker stones with the lighter plaster. Plaster when set can be taken up with a little bit of work. He said that if they wanted to do it right they should have had a very small amount in the joining areas and light smears to break up the darker parts of the stone.
The electrician said that if done right that the foam is no more a fire hazard than regular ceiling is. He did say without actually being able to see if the wire is running from the wall across the foam or coming straight through the ceiling straight down through the foam. He said the difference is you have more wire you have to make sure is not damaged during installation with the former.
Do hope this helps.
P.S. I hope you all have a fantastic day and stay safe.
The black mold they swept under the ceiling should land them in prison. If a family moves in and gets sick and they dont know why they are getting sick these two idiots should be held liable
yeah although it's in the house they're living in so no one else will get sick but themselves at the very least? still bad though
Unless it is Nigrospora. A non-toxic mold that poses no known risk to humans and other living organisms.
They’re living in the house lmao.
There are literally at least seven types of non-toxic black mould, the most common being cladosporium. Many people come into contact with cladosporium on a DAILY basis and have little to no negative effects, unless they’re already compromised such as asthmatics. While it is absolutely recommended to address ANY mould found, non-toxic included, their actions of removing the affected boards and those surrounding it should be sufficient. Surprisingly, there is also no federal law in the US that requires sellers to disclose the presence or past presence of mould in the home, though some states do require it. Since this is their personal home, you have NO idea whatsoever what they plan to disclose should they ever sell, so saying they should be in prison is absolutely absurd. The fact that they disclosed PUBLICLY in their TikToks that their home was found to have mould is probably a good sign that they were never intending to hide it…
Thank God these flippers posted everything online so that can be used in court later. Hope whatever poor buyer gets duped by these jerks can get their 💰
I was knee-deep in this for a hot minute and found the house from the sale listings on zillow, so I know what it sold for - I'm real curious to see how much they mark it up for these "improvements" when all is said and done.
You’re my only source of any “drama” because you’re the only channel I can watch talk about things as asinine as TikTok drama without actively feeling myself loose brain cells.(Even then sometimes I do anyways) 😂
Why the hell would you put a fake looking beam that looks like they stoled from disney in that house.
My husband works in construction. German smears are completely ugly. He hates when he has to do it. It's not reversible. The mortar soaks into the stone. It's completely ruined!! And, the foam isn't rated to hold that light.
I’ve gotten shorts from this channel and immediately dipped when I realized they were flippers and I feel vindicated lmao
I’m fully of the mindset, if you’re living in a home do what you want. I’m sick of people being forced to live in boring beige boxes because it will supposedly keep the retail value for some hypothetical future owner and you can’t even enjoy your own home while you’re in it. I personally do draw the line at massive renovations on historic homes that have original character and charm and can’t be undone, want a modern home vibe? Buy a modern home, don’t remove the beautiful details from a historic home when there’s other options. I loath most flippers though, they’re mostly in it for all the wrong reasons and I can spot most flips in seconds, keeping track of the local real estate market is a hobby of mine and the cheap flips are aging, taste and quality wise, poorly. They’re a contributing factor in the worsening of the real estate market, everyone thinks they can be a flipper with no skills and a tiny budget that leaves a butchered house for someone else to buy at a premium and deal with all their shoddy work.
Them using foam and calling it wood on camera already tells you of their credibility. As long as they divulge every corner they’ve cut and every bad choice they’ve made when they do sell it then it’s fine. Because they’ll probably get close to or less than what they paid for it due to the sheer amount of extra work needed to make it liveable and safe.
So, I live in Florida, born and raised, and I just have to say, no offense taken. It sucks here. 🤣🤣
Lol yeah it does. I just moved out of Florida, I'll miss the beautiful nature though.
That’s why I’m at the beach 3 x a week, don’t have to talk to anybody lol 😂❤
@@vsailorsv yeah, that’s definitely one of the only positives.
My stepsister thought that they would make a living flipping house only the first house that they flipped with bought for them and all of the repairs were paid for them.
After they sold they found out that they can't afford to buy another house.
Further caution - just say no to family members who offer to help you renovate the house. We have spent so much time and money on hiring professionals to fix things that my father in law bungled when he was “helping” us. We were too young and inexperienced to know to say no thanks!
the design is terrible. whoever said ‘ there is no such thing as nontoxic mold’ did not pay attention in science. there are definitely non toxic types
Your not wrong but i do want to say mold allergies aren't uncommon
"Even with non-toxic molds, allergic reactions may still occur. This is especially true for people who are more sensitive with their lungs."
I can't stay anywhere with mold due to allergies and asthma
@@pdw1230 thats totally understandable, im allergic as well so any mold is irritating for me. but an allergen doesn’t mean its toxic
THANK YOU!
@@Thetechnolady007 totally fair
@@pdw1230 I am also allergic, if its just around i get headaches and nose bleeds, if it gets too close my throat starts to swell shut. That doesn't make mold toxic though and it's important to NOT spread misinformation. It could lead to someone who has an allergy not knowing it.
Bad design choices can be fixed, but creating hazards are a different level. No new home owner wants their new home burning down a week after buying it because your tootsie roll beam melted and caught fire. Tik tok diy is not always safe or correct.
The way I cringed when they showed that poor fireplace 💀
That fireplace is Scary ugly. It was perfect before.
It looks like a 5 yo's gingerbread house. 🤢
I lived in a house with mold. We had it tested and got toxic results. That alone implies that some mold is non-toxic. However we’re also allergic to mold so there’s that!
Pls don't stop this tiktok drama videos. Tiktok algorithm is so specific I don't see at least half of the ongoing dramas
I don’t either.
I, unfortunately, bought a house from a flipper. They cut corners. They ruined the beautiful stone fireplace by painting it white. It's one of those situations that we didn't realize how bad it was until we lived here a while. However, on the plus side, and the reason we bought the house, it was a good price and close to my husband's job. But boy I wish we had the original stone fireplace.
Never apologize to Florida
That fireplace is a whole MESS. They should have left it alone. It was a beautiful part of the house.
Im glad the mold is their actual home and not a house they were going to flip
I’m betting they’re not going to live there long term even if they’re not calling it flipping!
So after a google...Yes, there is non-toxic mold? But it can still be allergenic. Meaning if they didn't address the mold and later sold the house, it could still be dangerous to some people. Personally, I don't think they actually addressed it fully. Like they removed the worst planks of wood. I only think that because that's such a strange thing to not mention in the OG video. Why would they not explain the whole situation after bringing attention to the mold in the first place?
Because the original clip was from before they got this attention, so they figured people would just use their common sense to know they didn't leave it in the ceiling. But because the internet is gonna internet all of a sudden people act like they don't have two brain cells to rub together all so they can keep dunking on these people.
"After finessing, it finally started to give a look that matched our inspiration photos" - meaning, they've never done the schmearing technique before, they have no idea how to do it, and they're just working off a photo instead of learning the how and why of doing it. So it's basically an amateur art project. Hoo boy
I escaped Florida almost a year ago. Never going back
Its ok Markie, people in Florida also hate it here
Between the fireplace and the lighting, these people just lack taste.
The idea of a beam that isn’t there for function and is also made of foam is blowing my mind.
Nooooo don’t touch the fireplace 😭
What they did to the fireplace looks vile
Looks like one of my college art projects using masking tape to create a outline for a image then painting ink over the top so once the masking tape is removed the image is there
I know the focus is on criminals who record crimes like stealing, but code enforcement should be peeping these criminals selling safety hazards.
the fireplace was fine you could’ve just darken the rest of the space and it would’ve been fine
0:30 Florida knows what its about, no need to apologize.
The big issue here is that they’re flipping the home, not that they’re changing the aesthetic. At the end of the day someone has to like it enough to buy it with the added renovation costs and it has to pass any home inspections because they are no longer selling it “as-is” the way they bought it.
When you flip a home it’s best to keep things simple and for general tastes. Putting too much personalization in it is not only going to hurt your overall renovation budget, but it’ll hurt how much you get for the house because MOST homebuyers aren’t looking to renovate their new homes.
HOWEVER, hateful comments? The internet is a cesspool. It really is. Either these people are too sensitive for comments that disagree with what they’ve chosen to post, or people are truly leaving hateful, bullying comments (Callem didn’t show any). Maybe some combination of the two or one or the other. Either way, the internet is a cesspool.
If you’re too sensitive to get criticism, get off the internet. And if an ugly design choice affects you so much that you feel you need to threaten someone or really leave something hateful, get off the internet.
Flippers are a blight. They never actually buy homes that NEED work or buy one with good bones and just scrub it clean. Its always the entry level price homes that need minimal work that they do half tush trading spaces quality work, slap grey paint and white laminate on everything and ask for another 100k. Meanwhile people actually wanting homes to live in are bummed because we wanted the cool vintage stuff.
House flippers do things like knocking a hole in the wall and covering it up with a cabinet