Underwrite a lead
The stack
Comps in one tab, the calculator in another, and a gut-check rehab number from $/sf and hope.
FLIP
Drop the address — comps, ARV, rehab draft and max offer in minutes, every input editable and sourced.
Compare
FLIP vs. the spreadsheet stack
The spreadsheet isn’t the problem — it’s the ten places around it: the group texts, the camera roll, the bank app, and the Sunday night where you reconcile them all.
Scope & estimate
The stack
A template SOW you tweak per house, prices from memory, nothing tied to what you actually saw.
FLIP
Walkthrough evidence becomes a priced, line-item scope — drafted blind to your budget, inspection lines untouchable.
Dispatch & bids
The stack
Phone tag, group texts, bids arriving as screenshots you retype into the sheet later.
FLIP
Scope lines go out by text; fixed, hourly or sealed bids come back on the deal and get compared side by side.
Track the money
The stack
Receipts in the truck, draws in the bank app, and the sheet catches up on Sunday night — if it catches up.
FLIP
Every draw and PO lives on its scope line; pay releases against photographed completion, always behind a confirm.
Job-site evidence
The stack
Two thousand photos in your camera roll named IMG_4471, findable by scrolling and prayer.
FLIP
Every capture carries when, where, what and state — filed to its deal automatically, cited in scope and draws.
Know your real margin
The stack
You find out at closing — if the sheet was right, and if every text-message change order made it in.
FLIP
Live projected profit from day one; the deal closes with its books — your true margin, not your best guess.
Honestly? Keep the spreadsheet if…
…you run one or two flips a year, do the work yourself, and your system isn’t costing you money. FLIP earns its keep when the deals outgrow your head — more than a couple at once, subs to coordinate, or a partner who needs to see the numbers you see.