However, it doesn’t take long to realize your renovation options are less expansive than they first appear. After following the lengthy to-do lists of your previous employers, having the ability to do whatever you please with your new home is exciting. The houses come in a variety of different sizes, prices, and levels of disrepair.
You have a little more freedom when it comes to demolishing and building walls and placing furnishings, but you won’t be impressing Chip and Joanna Gaines anytime soon.Īfter you’ve saved up enough money, you can forgo the set jobs and buy your own fixer-upper on the open market. The mechanics for painting, tiling, and mounting appliances are equally simplistic, and don’t leave much room for creativity. Cleaning boils down to clicking on boxes and other litter to make it instantly vanish, or holding in the mouse button to wave your broom in the general vicinity of stains. If you want to knock down all the walls you can always rebuild them and crazy colour schemes go unnoticed by most buyers.House Flipper gives you the ability to perform a number of remodeling actions, but the actual gameplay mechanics aren’t very interesting. Ultimately, it's very difficult to lose money on a house you've purchased so don't be afraid to try new things with it. Renovating to these briefs will net you the most money and help give you some direction if you're not too sure what to do with a house. If you haven't unlocked them yourself yet, have a look at our Buyer Profiles to get an idea of what different buyers are looking for. Sounds obvious as it's the name of the game, but house flipping will get you a lot more money for less work than doing Email Jobs.Įven if you're trying to save up for a house you really want to work on, buying a house and giving it a clean can often get you at least 10k in profit so if you want a fast track to money, ignore your emails as soon as possible.
You'll save yourself the frustration of looking for that last patch and the money won't be that different. If you're having trouble finding that last scrap of dirt there's no shame in handing in a job not at 100%.
This won't be available in all modes if the sell tool can't be brought up but you'll get a decent amount of your money back for doing this when you can. Use your sell tools to sell the paint buckets and leftover tiles.
If you're not sure what to upgrade first, check out our Things to do First Page. Anything that makes you more efficient will help you unlock more perks quicker so there's little point holding on to them for extended periods of time.ĭefinitely grab the 'penetrating vision' perk to see all the dirt in the mini-map and the 'You won't waste paint on an already painted wall' to make yourself more efficient and be able to go back and check which space on the wall was left unpainted. Using your map to locate these objectives in both Email Jobs and House Flipping can make the time it takes to clear these objectives much faster. Walls that need to be knocked down will also be marked as red on the map. Trash also displays on your map as black grey objects and if you've upgraded your cleaning perks the dirt will show up as black splotches. Things you've already mounted appear in green. Ignore what the game tells you to do first and instead complete jobs in this order to have the least hassle.Ĭan't find that pesky device that needs mounting? Well good news, it's red on your mini-map which can save you a lot of time in hunting it down.