Zombie House Flipping

In the midst of a serious, Orlando heat wave, the team finds this colorful zombie in Orlando’s coveted Lake Pineloch neighborhood. But, when their plan to redesign the disjointed kitchen is derailed and the AC keeps going out, the house looks more like a pressure cooker than a profitable flip. In over their heads on the redesign, the team meets with an architect to get the kitchen back on track, but when crew walks out because of the heat and Duke suffers from heat exhaustion, the team has to get cool and creative in order to finish this hot house in time.

When the team finds a low-priced zombie in a good neighborhood, it seems too good to be true. And it is. At first, the team thinks that they’re dealing with old termite damage and no live bugs, but the more they look, the more damage they find. As they uncover problems in the ceiling, the floors, and everywhere in between, they realize that this zombie is being eaten from the inside out. They have to tent the house and then repair everything in the house from the floor up in order to turn this bug infestation into a home.

When Justin gets sick, Keith, Ashlee, and Duke have to decide on their own whether or not to take on this house without a kitchen. They take on the flip, but when they dig into the house, they find that there are more problems below ground than with the house itself. The swampy pool in the back turns into a major challenge, a mysterious burial site spooks the flippers, and Duke’s love for tile threatens to blow a tight budget. But, the team digs in, builds a state of the art kitchen, and turns this zombie into a lovely home.

This disjointed house has two front doors and a confused floor plan that makes the team’s heads spin. They plan to open up and reinvent the floor plan to make a cohesive home out of an overly renovated mess. To do that, they’ll have to raise the floor in the living room, knock down a few walls, and create a usable master suite by enlarging the bathroom. But, when Justin pranks Keith during demo, Keith seeks revenge by unleashing a barrage of pranks. And, what starts off as an innocent series of gags turns into a dangerous and costly distraction.

Sunken floors, rooms cluttered with junk, disgusting bathrooms with a toilet falling through the floor, and an addition that’s literally falling off the house, make this canal front zombie one of the worst the team has ever seen. The flippers must rip out everything except the exterior walls and create a brand new floor plan from scratch. It was a cheap buy, but with so much work to do, the team has to work carefully to keep this Zombie from turning into a complete money pit.

When a married couple gets divorced in the middle of renovating this house, it gives the flippers an opportunity they can’t turn down. They decide to finish the flip, add on a brand new master suite, and make a quick profit while following design and renovation choices that the couple already made. It seems like it will be a simple flip, but unpaid debts from the previous owners threaten to halt all progress when debt collectors start showing up at the house to repossess the kitchen cabinets. The team quickly learns that taking on someone else’s flip also means taking on their problems.

Duke finds a dilapidated mid-century modern home that some other flippers have already started. When the team gets to the house to investigate, it’s clear that the work was botched and will have to be redone. It’s a big undertaking but Justin sees potential in the house and decides to run the project on his own. However, when he has to rip out all the drywall, reframe the rooms, rewire the house, and basically start from scratch, it seems like he’s bitten off more than he can chew.