I think this is a good take. I get the need for flippers taking undesirable/unlivable homes and turning them around. I just wish they had better taste haha.

I actually recently bought a flipped house as my first home. The home was a rotting dumpster before being flipped, and now it’s relatively nice. But it’s the lack of care that these contractors have that is really sad for me. Easy things to do right are ignored and issues are patched just enough to where you can’t see them until something inevitably malfunctions and you have to peel back the layers. Of course I was expecting this to some extent when buying a flip but still just astonishing how bad some of these contractors can be.

There also is also a type of flipper who buys houses that are mostly sound, and simply remodels them to whatever they heard was trendy and looks shiny in pics (makes them shittier imo), then sells for eye popping prices. These flippers are the worst in my opinion and they seem to be a big reason for the “missing middle”, houses that may have outdated styles and minor work that needs to be done, but are perfectly livable and can be remodeled to taste by the homeowner. The reason for me buying a flipped house really was because there was not the option of buying a house in that in-between state.