My Tundra Blew up!

This is the story of how I flew across the country to flip three cars, watched my Tundra blow up somewhere in the middle of America, and still made it back to Park City with the deals done. It's not a real estate video. It's also completely a real estate video — stick with me.

The trip

The plan was clean: fly out, buy three underpriced vehicles, drive them back staged for resale, pocket the spread. Car flipping was my first education in buying right — I've owned around a hundred cars, and long before I had a real estate license, Subarus were funding my World Cup ski career (there's a whole short film about that on the channel). The execution was less clean: the Tundra — the reliable one, the one that was never supposed to be the problem — grenaded mid-country. Breakdown, roadside triage, improvised logistics, and a very long limp home later, all three flips still closed.

The part that actually is about real estate

Flipping cars taught me the exact muscles I use every day in this market. Buy the asset, not the story — the spread is made at purchase, never at sale. Inspect ruthlessly, because the problem you don't find becomes the problem you own (this applies to Tundras and to HOA reserve studies with equal force). And when things break mid-deal — a blown engine, a blown appraisal, a seller who changes their mind at the finish line — the outcome is decided by whether you solve it or panic. Every closing I've saved came down to that trip's lesson: keep moving, work the problem, get home.

Also, buy the extended warranty. Nobody follows that one.

Why I post the messy ones

Anyone can post wins. But you learn who you're working with when the engine blows — and if you're trusting someone with the biggest transaction of your life, you deserve to know how they handle a broken-down Tuesday. This is how. The full saga, questionable decisions included, is in the video above.

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