A&E's 50/50 Flip Starring Dedric and Krystal Polite

The Direct Message looked like spam. It turned out to be A&E offering Dedrick and Krystal Polite a shot at a home-renovation series that actually reflects real neighborhoods, real budgets, and real-life chaos. We sit down with the duo behind A&E's 50/50 Flip to unpack how they went from software sales and corporate headsets to rentals, rehabs, and a documentary-style TV show that doesn’t fake the mess—or the math.

We get into the origin story: starting with little capital, leveraging wholesaling to buy-and-hold, and documenting every step until the network came calling. Dedrick and Krystal explain why they skip the DIY fantasy, how they choose investor-friendly agents, and the simple system that keeps ARV realistic and finishes on-budget. Krystal breaks down her puzzle-first approach to layout and design, while Dedrick shares how they scaled from a three-person scramble in season one to a disciplined, leveraged team in season two. You’ll hear the roof leaks, scheduling shocks, and hard-won lessons that turn a flip into a business.

Beyond the flips, we dive into the “18 summers” philosophy—protecting family time by setting a hard 5 pm cutoff—and redefining generational wealth as kids choosing to come home when they don’t have to. The Polites also open up about what’s next: commercial conversions, a mobile home park, and stepping into franchising with Sky Zone. If you’ve been hunting for real estate advice grounded in attainable price points, practical systems, and clear values, this conversation delivers both the blueprint and the courage to follow it.

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Chapters

• 0:48 Meet Dedrick And Crystal Polite
• 3:42 From Day Jobs To Real Estate
• 5:14 A&E DM To Greenlighted Show
• 9:33 Documentary Style And Real Stakes
• 11:32 Teamwork, Agents, And Running Comps
• 14:00 Kids, Schedule, And Filming Grind
• 18:01 The 18 Summers Philosophy
• 22:46 Entrepreneurship For Time Freedom
• 24:37 DIY Flips Vs Building A Team
• 27:04 Design As A Puzzle
• 28:22 Season One Stress, Season Two Systems
• 31:37 Impact Of Attainable Price Points
• 35:07 Beyond Flips: Commercial And Franchises
• 38:17 Closing Thoughts And Where To Watch

Transcript

SPEAKER_02: 0:26

From real estate market as a whole sometimes affect it. Right. In real life, we all learn it. If you think about it, Wayne Dyer might not attract everybody and everything in between.

SPEAKER_00: 0:43

The Brad Wiseman show. And now your host, Brad Wiseman.

SPEAKER_02: 0:49

All right. We got a good show. Got a great show. Yes. Lined up here. We do. We really do. Yeah, and I've been talking to these two people for quite some time. Actually, they were scheduled to come on once before, and something happened. They were flying into Pittsburgh or something like that. I can't remember the exact details, but they were flying into Pittsburgh and they end up having to cancel because they couldn't get to somewhere they could be on Wi-Fi or whatever. So uh they are like stars too. They have a show on A E and also in Hulu. It's called 5050 Flip. Now, I don't know if you know what flip means. Okay, what does that mean? Not like a backflip. This is like a rec this is taking real estate. You find a house that's in pretty bad shape, and you end up uh you know putting in so much money and then you end up selling it, and that's what it's called flip. Oh yeah, it's called a flip. I did one in my career, and I have to say, I was terrible at it.

SPEAKER_04: 1:46

Uh-uh.

SPEAKER_02: 1:46

Well, yeah, I was terrible. And I'm gonna tell them when we talk to them, I'm gonna let them know about my bad experience and doing one flip. But actually, we have Dedrick and Crystal Polite. They have a show on Annie and Hulu, and like I said, it's called 50-50 flip. They already had filmed and did their second season. It is a really good show. I watched an episode last night. It was really, really good. I watched the episode location, location, location. Uh, it was really good. And they're just they're very dynamic. They have a great show, and they are here to talk to us about how they do these flips. Dedrick and Crystal, how are you doing? Brad, we are doing awesome. Thanks for having us. You're very welcome. Yes, so um, you're from North Carolina. No, we're not where I'm from South Carolina, grew up in Boston. South Carolina. Oh, wait, so you're from South Carolina, grew up in Boston, okay. And Crystal, where are you from?

SPEAKER_05: 2:34

I'm from North Carolina, but I also grew up in Boston. So that's where we actually met with.

SPEAKER_02: 2:39

Wow. So you were closer together, you were closer where you grew up than you than you went to Boston to meet, just because you know, people go to Boston to meet, it's just a normal thing, right?

SPEAKER_05: 2:51

Right. We were kids, our parents both moved to Boston in the uh late 80s. Oh, that's crazy. Lived there a majority of my life.

SPEAKER_02: 3:00

Unbelievable. So, yeah, so you you are doing the show, which which is incredible. I did watch an episode of it last night. I watched a bunch of little pieces, but then I watched a full episode, and it was it was really, really good. You guys have a great team working for you, and we're gonna get into how did you get from, you know, I don't know what you were doing before, but how did you get to be uh a reality show on A E and Hulu? I mean, how did it get to there?

SPEAKER_03: 3:27

Yeah, I mean, we both were working regular jobs. I was doing software sales. Um, I hated it. I hated working for someone else. I always wanted to get into real estate. She was doing a corporate job, right? Working from home on a computer, on a headset all day. And I'd always wanted to get into real estate. So we got into real estate in 2017, started out. Um, our goal was to build a buy and hold rental portfolio. But we didn't have a lot of money when we first got started. So we started out wholesaling and flipping contracts. We did that. We started building a small rental portfolio, and we were renovating all these houses and documenting that process on social media. And then one day, um, AE reached out to us. They slid in our DMs and they did it multiple times, and we didn't really pay attention to it because you probably thought it was spam, right? We thought it was spam, right? Yeah, and then you know they finally got in touch with us and they were like, hey, we were looking to do a TV show on a couple in North Carolina, and we found you guys. And we were like, we were honored, but we were like, Well, we don't flip houses, we're buying properties, we'll renovate them, and we actually rent them out. We don't really sell. And they were like, we don't care. They were like, we just want to document what you guys are doing because we need to do a TV show on a couple in North Carolina.

SPEAKER_05: 4:34

Well, it wasn't really they were looking for anyone specifically in North Carolina, they were just looking for their next couple to do a flip show, and they were getting back into the home space. So they had been out of it uh for years. What do they say?

SPEAKER_03: 4:48

Since like Fan Merrill would flip that house, A and E had not been in home renovation for years, right?

SPEAKER_05: 4:53

Yeah, back into it, and they were looking to green light three shows. They were going through hundreds of applicants, hundreds of um people, and we were one of them, and we ended up being the final three.

SPEAKER_02: 5:08

Do you remember getting that call?

SPEAKER_05: 5:11

Uh, yes, it was actually during COVID. So during that time, we had been going through round after round, and it was a lot of Zoom calls. And every Zoom call, it would be more and more people on the Zoom call from the network. From the network. And then the final one, we were really just like, hey, we're not gonna do it, but let's just see how far we can get because it'll be cool for us to tell people like you know. Like one of the finalists, you know, one of the top three, five. And so that's really all we had in mind. Um, and then they was like, hey, we wanted to do uh a Zoom call with you guys, uh, one more Zoom call. Would you mind? We was like, no, sure, absolutely. We got on that call, and it was the attorneys, um, producers, like everyone was on the call. And it was like, well, we wanted to say we we love you guys, we love what we've seen. The network loved the um sizzle reel that we put together on you guys, and we want to offer you one of the uh shows.

SPEAKER_02: 6:16

And we were like really gonna get it, yeah. Right. So now you're like, oh no, now what do we do? Right?

SPEAKER_05: 6:23

That's exactly what it was like.

SPEAKER_02: 6:24

It was like we kind of have to do this. Yeah, now you're like all of a sudden you start getting nervous too. You're probably like, oh man, we this is for real.

SPEAKER_05: 6:31

Because we never thought that we would actually get shows. We were just like, Yeah, we're gonna be able to tell people, yeah, see people on these calls, and we're taking pictures of the Zoom calls, like, yeah, so we can show people like it. Oh my gosh, that's hilarious. So it was definitely a shocker to us, and we was like, that it was like, Well, we don't have to do it. I was like, uh, yeah, we kind of do now. That's how we ended up doing it.

SPEAKER_02: 6:55

That is cool though, and you know what? It it's kind of it's a fun story. It really is. It's a fun story, and it could have it could have ended up that you told your friends, you know what, we got to number three. The th the thing that's cool is that you were okay with that. You know what I mean? Yeah, like you weren't like it wasn't like you, it wasn't like your whole life you desired to be on AE, you know, and have a flip show. You guys kind of just like started doing this and you're doing what you love to do, which then actually what's funny too. Passion shows through. And authentic and we talk about this a lot on the show, is authenticity shows through. You know, when you're authentic about anything in life, people want to see it, people want to buy it, people want to be around it. They they love authentic people, and that's what I noticed about the show too when I was watching it last night. You know, it's real. I I felt very much like you were guys were real about it. I mean, even though the steps didn't line up in the one show, and then the then you had a roof leak that came into the kitchen, that wasn't fun. But you know, those things happen. Um, so how many houses have you flipped now?

SPEAKER_05: 7:54

Uh for hundreds, yeah. And for TV, it's just two seasons. So I think we've done maybe 16 houses for television and hundreds outside.

SPEAKER_02: 8:05

Yeah. And how much of it is real? I mean, it's it's almost all real. I mean, those houses you actually flipped, right? I mean, they're they were your houses.

SPEAKER_05: 8:13

It's a hundred percent real. So Annie shoots documentary style.

SPEAKER_02: 8:18

Okay, good.

SPEAKER_05: 8:19

It's not scripted, it's not scripted. So, you know, you do have some reality TV show that is scripted reality, yeah. TV shows. We are is documentary style. So they're literally coming in and just documenting what we're doing um every single day. So when people see the houses, all we're doing is giving them our um scope of work, our construction schedule. So our project manager's like, hey, this is what we're doing every day of this week. Yeah, this is what we'll be doing next week. And they're coming in and they're documenting it. The crazy thing is that means everything. So even when you don't want them to show something like a fire or a flood, it's like they're like, uh, oh no, we need that.

SPEAKER_02: 9:02

Like, yeah, well, of course, that stuff sells even more. I mean, I gotta tell you, as much as I didn't like the roof leak, I was like, oh, this is kind of fun. That's what I'm saying. Because the drywall had fallen on. What do you mean it makes you feel like you've realized that it's real at that point? When you guys came in and there was like drywall and water on the floor, like oh man, I'm like, you gotta be kidding me. But you know what? It made sense. The roof wasn't done. You guys had a wicked thunderstorm that came through. The your contractor explained it, and and and that's reality, that's life. This is what happens.

SPEAKER_05: 9:33

That's exactly what happens, and it's crazy because it seems like when you're filming a TV show, it's always happening. I'm sure it happens and you don't really know. It's like whack-a-moe.

SPEAKER_03: 9:46

You're trying to whack a mole, and you're like, only because these cameras are here, this shit keeps happening.

SPEAKER_05: 9:50

And we can't entertain, yeah, and we can't like go into the houses prior. Yeah. So people are seeing our real reaction. It it's us really reacting because we're not allowed to go into the house that day on filming. And our project manager, our GC and them are coming constant communication with um our showrunners and producers. So they're knowing something's happened and we don't know.

SPEAKER_02: 10:16

That's actually really cool though, because in that way it is, it's off there. Once again, you got the authentic reaction of, oh shit, look at our floor. You know what I mean? Look what just happened to our roof or whatever. Yeah, though, that's that's really cool. And I noticed, and that's the way I noticed the show is that it wasn't, it wasn't, I could tell it wasn't scripted, obviously, because it was real, it was raw, and and it's it was good. It was really good. Actually, you drew me in. I was I I wasn't even gonna watch the whole thing, I have to be honest, because I was really skeptical. I was tired, I was tired. It's gonna be boring, but we'll see. And I was talking, my wife's like, You come to bed. I'm like, Yeah, I'll be up soon. Next, not knowing the episode was 45 minutes or whatever it is, an hour. So you drew me in, and next thing you know, I'm coming up to bed at 11:30 at night. She's like, What were you doing? I'm like, I can't even explain it right now. I said, I'll explain it to you tomorrow morning. Uh that's funny. But no, it was it was uh really, really good. So let's let's go into this. Is what I thought was interesting too. That that you you have no real estate license. Like you're not this is something that you guys picked up, uh, a love for doing the flips. And actually, the rentals is how it started, right?

SPEAKER_03: 11:23

Yes. So you would fix them up and rent them. Yeah, I mean, we put in our 10,000 hours. We don't have a real estate license, but we invested probably a quarter million dollars in our education and paying mentors and paying over the past decade. I believe that learning the information that we need to learn. So we put in the hours, and you don't people don't realize you don't need a real estate license to flip houses, right? Now, in some states a dozen states, but most states you don't need a license to flip.

SPEAKER_02: 11:49

Yep.

SPEAKER_03: 11:49

Right. So yeah, it's it's been amazing.

SPEAKER_02: 11:51

Yeah, it's it is amazing. Now, do you use you? I saw on the show you do use realtors though for your comps. There's a realtor that because the I remember at one point she said, I'm gonna go, she gave you guys the comparables and where they fell in, and it fell on around 300, it was like 307, 304, and then the one was 300. And that's where you guys ended up, you know, pricing it. So you have an agent that you have a relationship with that helps you out with that.

SPEAKER_03: 12:13

Oh, yeah, we partner with agents and our agents indispensable on our team.

SPEAKER_05: 12:16

Uh, we we know how to run our own comps, but we always have our agent running just to check our comps to make sure we're absolutely oh yeah, and we and we tell people like you get an investor-friendly realtor, one who really is invested in your market, knows everything that's happening, keeps up to date with the market as well. So our realtors are we have one that is intricate to our team, so she's like our go-to. So she's an investor as well.

SPEAKER_02: 12:43

So she understands cool. Yeah, yeah. She understands that you you make money when you buy it, not when you sell it.

SPEAKER_04: 12:49

There you go. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_02: 12:50

Yeah, isn't it funny that if you do real estate, everybody knows that that term? It's very, very true, very true. So you also have two boys that I saw on the show, and they're very much into basketball, and they're really good at dribbling a ball. Um, it's it Keenan and Kennedy, right?

SPEAKER_05: 13:35

Correct.

SPEAKER_02: 13:36

Yes, so tell me a little bit about they're in the show. I mean, you know, some people like to will say, oh, we don't want the family involved in the show, or we don't want to show them on the show. But I think it makes it makes you guys even more real by seeing the kids in the show. I think that's cool.

SPEAKER_05: 13:51

Absolutely. And one, they're a part of the business, they're part of uh what we're building. So it was only natural that people actually see um our day-to-day, right? Because our life is not just flipping um in real estate, they are a huge part of it. So it makes sense to um really have them on the show so people can see the balance that we have, right?

SPEAKER_02: 14:16

The real estate how you try to juggle and try to balance, right? We're all we're all trying to balance with kids. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_05: 14:26

And I remember they were trying to do, we were gonna do an episode where they was like, hey, we should really do a day in the life of me. And because they was like, Man, you're just going nonstop. We should really show people what you do from the moment you wake up, yeah, um, till that until you go down. So they was like, Hey, could you send us your schedule? Just document what you do um and send it to us for like two or three days.

SPEAKER_03: 14:55

That was the first mistake they made.

SPEAKER_02: 15:00

I sent it to them, and they were like, Okay, well, they're like, maybe we'll do another show with that.

SPEAKER_05: 15:10

Exactly. That was like, and that's what they said. They said, This is an entire show on its own. They was like, You really do all of this and then film for 10 hours a day. So we film five days a week, 10 hours a day. Wow, that's a lot for about nine to ten months straight. That's a lot. Yes, yeah, and when I sent the schedule, and they was like 5 a.m. Oh, yeah, this is uh a training at 6 a.m. at hair and makeup, then you go through filming, then you get off immediately, you run, grab the boys, get one to training here, get that. They're like cook dinner. Yeah, cook. Like they were, okay, maybe, maybe not do a day in the life. They said, Man, I we'd have to pay this whole crew double overtime to come this.

SPEAKER_02: 16:02

Did they ask what DeRick does then? Uh I just look pretty. That's all that's awesome. Yeah, that is funny. That's the thing with when you're with what you guys are doing. It's it's a lot. I mean, that's a lot. I can't imagine putting that into. I mean, we're busy, we have two kids too. We get I I get that part of it definitely. And my wife is amazing with that. I'm definitely more like Dedrick a little bit. Uh, where I I she knows all the schedules, you know. Mom, I always say mommies are amazing. They really are. They really are. I don't know what we would do without them. They're the best. Absolutely. Yep, absolutely. Well, I love it that they're on the show, and I love it that they're part of the of the whole business and everything. And I know that's a big, big thing for you guys because I read that in a couple different places on your website. I read it in different places where you you want them to be involved. You want them to learn about what you guys are doing, which is really cool because the kids learn from what you they learn from what you do, not from what you say. Absolutely. So it's it's it's very important. Oh, I this is the one thing I wanted to say that I really, really enjoyed it really hit home for me. And it's on, I think it's on it's on your one pager. We call them one pagers when somebody's trying to book, when we're trying to book you as a guest or whatever. It said, with just 18 summers to shape their children's futures, the polites have made every moment count, proving this that success doesn't have to come at the cost of family. I love that. You know, when we think about summers, or you think about instead of us saying somebody's gonna be 18 years old or whatever, and you think about all those days in between, but when you say 18 summers, that really, really hits home.

SPEAKER_03: 17:38

Yes, yeah, really hits home. How limited the time is, Brad. Yes, we only have 18 summers to make those memories, and we try, like we have multiple vacations and trips, and it's about the memories, right? It's not about the summer. Oh, absolutely. The memories you create with your family, your loved ones.

SPEAKER_02: 17:54

No, I that that really hit me, and it actually affected me as I'm thinking back because my daughter's 13, so there's only five five more there. Uh, and my son's 10. And it really hit me. I it I like kind of was like an emotional moment, you know, when I read that. And so I th I love that. And I think that's really cool that you guys realize that. You know, there was another statistic that I just heard, it was on Ed Milette show the other day. I quote him a lot and I listen to him a lot on podcasts, and they said that uh that you you guys will appreciate this, from zero to twelve years old is when you is you'll spend 75% of the time that you're ever gonna spend with your kids from zero to twelve. I agree. From 12 on is the other 25%. So isn't that scary? Or isn't that like that that hit home that hits home?

SPEAKER_05: 18:43

Yes, it does, and it's so true because we have a 12-year-old and you can see that yeah.

SPEAKER_02: 18:49

Yeah, and uh because they have friends, they want to do their friend things, they become more independent.

SPEAKER_05: 18:55

Yes, yes, see it now, like now that he's hit 12 and helping. And me and name four or five friends, can we go to uh Sky Zone this weekend?

SPEAKER_02: 19:09

Yeah, Sky Zone.

SPEAKER_05: 19:10

And I'm like, Yeah, sure, you can go to Sky Zone, whereas before it would be like, Hey, mommy, can we all go to Sky Zone this weekend? Yes, oh it's so true. But I tell people when I articulate to people that we have 18 summers with our children. That was um exactly what we said, even to the network when we got started. I told them I said, Listen, I have 18 summers with my children, and I expect um and intend to spend every moment we can with them. So when I say five o'clock is cutoff time for filming, guess what? It's not 5.01 or 5.02. As soon as it hit five, whatever you don't have, you won't get because after that, I'm running now to my family. I still gotta cook for my family. I still gotta help with homework. I want to know what's happening in school. And it's because I constantly keep in my mind I have 18 summers with them before at that point you're hoping they come back home, right? You're hoping, like, oh, in college, during the summers they're gonna come home. But I tell people true generational wealth, and anyone who follows us and knows us know we speak a lot about generational wealth, and that's just because both of us came from generational poverty.

SPEAKER_01: 20:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05: 20:29

So we already know what that looks like. But I like to also let people know true generational wealth for me is when your children want to come home when they're older and they want to seek their parents, they want to spend time with you. That is true generational wealth, not how much money you've left them, how many uh doors that you've left them. It's about do my children want to be able to be around my husband and I when they don't have to be in 25, 35, 40, like we want to be with our mothers and now.

SPEAKER_02: 21:04

That's awesome. That's really cool. Didn't think the show was going in this direction, but I love it, man. This is this is great. It's a different direction. But this is what I love about doing the show is that you know, you get to meet people and and you know, we all have families, we all have an uh an upbringing, we all have a somewhere we came from. Yeah, but I think we're always trying to make our the our kids uh in a better situation, and we're trying to do what you the generational wealth of kids coming back home to see their parents, that's just an awesome thing. Never heard that before. It's very, very cool, you know. And I hope to be that for my kids too, or our kids too. And I think you know, our wife and my wife and I, we that's what we strive for. You strive for, you know, that they are proud of us and want to come back to us. Yep.

SPEAKER_03: 21:44

And Brad, I just want to make one point, and that's why we chose to be entrepreneurs. Yeah. Being a business owner, you know, nothing wrong with having a job, but being a business owner, sometimes you you trade in a 40-hour week job for an 80-hour week business. Yeah, but it also can afford you freedom, right? We don't miss any of the school events, we don't miss a game. We're able to travel all around the country every weekend with them competitive soccer, competitive basketball, yeah, because we we started a business and we built the company. So that's why I always encourage people to either start a business or have a side hustle or something that can give you that financial freedom and more importantly, the time freedom to spend those 18 summers with your kids.

SPEAKER_02: 22:19

Yeah, no, that's cool. And and I agree with you 100%. A lot of people do have side hustles now today to be able to have a little bit more freedom. The other thing, too, that I've noticed in in the workplace today is I think the the owners and the, I know we are as owners of a company, they're a lot different than they were when like when I grew up, my parents weren't allowed to leave work for anything. I mean, they just weren't. I mean, my dad, my mom, they didn't go to any of my stuff during the day. And I'm not saying anything bad about my parents. My parents are wonderful and I love them so much. But they they couldn't leave work. And today, uh thank God I think our society has definitely realized that the family unit is more important than the dollar bill in many, many times. And that if the if the employer, if the employee is not happy or the employee is missing their family, they're not providing the best uh job at their work. They're just not. Yeah, because they're they're not they're not doing it right. So it's just it's interesting to hear that. And I think that's what I love about being real estate too. I mean, everybody says, yeah, but you work like 75 hours a week. Yeah, but it's when I want to.

SPEAKER_05: 23:20

Yes. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_02: 23:22

It's when I want to work. Yes, I work more than somebody's working 40 hours a week, but I can also go to the uh Halloween party during the day at the at school, you know? So it's interesting. And I love I love hearing that. The similarities is really cool. It's it's really good to hear. So I I gotta tell you a little bit about my flip, uh, my flip experience. And and you guys, I noticed that you have a team, okay? You have a team of people. So, like you have a contractor. I mean, you guys help too. I saw on the show that you guys are in there with hammers and busting stuff apart. You're there at the houses and stuff. But the mistake I made, and you can maybe let me know if you ever made this mistake, it was just me and like my my uh wife at the time and and I think my dad. And and what we did is we decided we were gonna do everything ourselves.

SPEAKER_03: 24:11

Oh, you saw Chip and Joanna. You were like, I'm gonna throw in a tool belt.

SPEAKER_02: 24:16

We were deciding we were gonna do everything ourselves. And this is way before HGTV stuff. This is way before this is like 25 years ago. So I'm like, yeah, I can I can do this. What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna tear the cabinets out, I'm gonna buy new cabinets, I'm gonna paint the place myself. Well, you realize you think you can do it real fast. Like, but then it became like two months, then three months. Yes, and then you forget you have a job.

unknown: 24:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02: 24:42

So I'm out trying to sell real estate. Well, it ended up taking 90 days until we got this place done. And it basically the interest and it sitting and all that really chewed up our uh a lot of our profits because it ended up we didn't get on the market until 90 days, and then back then it wasn't 30-day sales, it was like 60 to 60 or 90 days until you settled. So we were out 180 days. Now you guys know that's money. Wow, yes, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 25:09

So you almost made that same mistake. Did you almost do that? Almost, because I thought if you were flipping the house, you had to have a tool belt, you're the guy. Yeah, right, exactly. And I told Crystal's like, hey, we're gonna do this. And she was like, Hold on, hold on. She was like, first of all, you're not handy. Second of all, you're an only day like construction. Third, you're you're more of an office guy than field guy. She was like, We'll make more money by hiring someone than us trying to have to so right. Right, and she was so right. I'm glad she did.

SPEAKER_02: 25:36

Yeah, nobody didn't have Crystal on my side at that moment, so nobody was there to tell me who I really am. Because I'm not I'm not mechanical either. I'm not. I mean, if you give me a wall to bash down, yeah, I can do that. But I'm there. Exactly. Demo is easy. It's the it's the everything else. It really is.

SPEAKER_05: 25:55

It's the everything else.

SPEAKER_02: 25:57

Now, where did you guys get the eye for? I know, Crystal, you go into a house and you were like, I'm gonna I want this wall out, I want to open this up. I mean, is this just uh just training from the 10,000 hours, or did you actually always have a knack for design?

SPEAKER_05: 26:11

No, actually, it's just from the 10,000 hours. What I it's funny, but the uh design of a house really comes but from my love of puzzles. Oh goodness, you're it's the funniest thing. I um that is like my my piece is doing a puzzle. Oh wow, um, a jigsaw puzzle. So, and I look at everything like a puzzle. So when I go into houses, that's the first thing I'm looking at is the structure and the design of a house, and it becomes a puzzle to me. How can I maximize it? So that's literally how I look at um houses and design. It's just just it's just another puzzle to me. Um and that's really where it came from.

SPEAKER_02: 27:01

Yeah, you you well, you're good at it. I mean, I know you have another there was another lady that was on there that does was that was there helping you pick out the tiles. And you were picking, yeah, yeah. She's on the show. I think she's part of the team, if I might.

SPEAKER_05: 27:11

Yes, yes, our design manager. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02: 27:13

She was great.

SPEAKER_03: 27:14

Yeah, season one, we didn't really have a team. Our team was very small. Oh, we I'm gonna have to watch. We almost killed ourselves in season one.

SPEAKER_02: 27:22

Watch season one. Oh, I gotta watch season one now that I saw that one of these, because this was like this was in season two, the one I think I saw, or it was it was it later.

SPEAKER_03: 27:31

It almost wasn't a season two. We were so stressed because listen, we had like a three-person team doing the work of 15 people, so we were so skeptical. I'm like 20 pounds lighter. Yes, we both had lost so much weight, it was so stressful. So, season two, when we came back, we had a bigger team because it's a lot of moving properties.

SPEAKER_05: 27:48

I'll tell you, the day we wrapped season one, that's why we ended season one early. We had 10 properties that we were supposed to do. We stopped at six. Wow because we was like, Look, somebody's gonna die.

SPEAKER_02: 28:00

If we like to put it on the city, contractor going. I have a feeling Dedrick would have been the one that's gonna get wasted.

SPEAKER_05: 28:07

No, it's gonna be one of them contractors.

SPEAKER_02: 28:09

Oh, one of the contractors.

SPEAKER_05: 28:10

Okay, we baby Jesus. Let's let's go on and Deric said, let's wrap this up. So we both end up in jail. I said, I but it literally the day after we wrap, I remember it like it was yesterday. We both laid back in the bed, looked at each other, and we was like, We ain't doing no damn season two. We were both over it. We was like, we good, we enjoy season two, we don't care what they ask. And it wasn't until we came back and we had some time off. Look and vacation, vacation, meditated, prayed. Um, and then a couple months later, we was like, okay, we just gotta come back. And then had a lot of people talking to us in our ear, like, listen, first season is always the hardest. But we also didn't follow instructions of some people that we know who also have flipping shows.

SPEAKER_01: 29:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05: 29:08

And it was like, hey, this is going to be your job. This is going to be your like, this is your new job. Yeah. So you're not gonna be able to do all the things that you were doing previous. This is going to consume your time. And we was like, they don't know what we multi-handed. We had like five companies going. We was like, Yeah, we good. What? Oh we were I told him, never, and I'm usually the one who listens. Yeah, when somebody tells me that I'm not one who likes to learn the hard way.

SPEAKER_04: 29:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05: 29:40

Um, but and when they told us that after we realized we said they ain't never lied, they we kept trying to run this this whole TV show and then run five wholesaling company, a flipping company.

SPEAKER_02: 29:56

Oh my gosh, yeah, there's no way you need to delegate. You need to you have to leverage. If you don't leverage, you'll you will, you'll, you'll be like having a heart attack. We learned that in season two. Yes, yeah. Well, I could well I can definitely tell because you guys seem pretty calm and see in what I saw. You seem pretty calm. I gotta watch season one. This is gonna be funny because I'm gonna sit down and watch it and be like, oh, yeah, there's somebody gonna die.

SPEAKER_05: 30:20

Yeah, and you you'll see the tension during season. Oh, really? Oh, this is our contract, and you'll you'll see it, and you're gonna be like, ooh, yeah, man. Crystal's getting a little mad. Oh, this is uh this is uh documentary style. This is definitely unscripted.

SPEAKER_02: 30:36

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, that's great. That's great. So, what so before we wrap this up, what what have you learned through this whole process? And and you know, I'm sure there's like a lesson that you're learned, or actually you're past season two. Is there possibly a season three? Do you do you want to keep Doing this, I mean, is there anything that uh you see in the future with the show, or are you like, okay, we did it and now we're gonna just do our own thing?

SPEAKER_05: 31:00

Um, well, we did sign up for four seasons. Oh, wow. Okay. We are two through four. So each year they go, they renew you. So we won't know until probably the end of this year if there'll be a season three.

SPEAKER_04: 31:13

Okay.

SPEAKER_05: 31:13

Um, so for us though, we've definitely talked about it. Like we would, if season three is green lit, we'll come back for a third season as well. And it's more so just because of the um outpouring of support and love that we've gotten from the show, just to see how it's that show in the format has changed so many people's lives. And it's just because they're seeing a flipping show that's not a million-dollar flip.

SPEAKER_02: 31:42

Yes, I love that part.

SPEAKER_05: 31:44

Love that part, sustainable and inspirational to so many people. Like, this is something I can do on my part-time, this is something that I can do and keep my day job. This is something that you know is attainable for me. And we've had people from all over the country reach out to us, people in prison. Oh, wow. You know, AE's big in prison.

SPEAKER_03: 32:05

Oh, I didn't know that. Didn't know you're like, hey, when I get out, you guys have inspired me to go into this.

SPEAKER_02: 32:10

That's awesome.

SPEAKER_03: 32:12

That's cool. That's very cool. Write us letters from prison.

SPEAKER_02: 32:15

That's neat. So you think you're gonna do a season thing, and hopefully you you can, which would be great. And uh anything else? I mean, are you guys gonna just keep flipping or are you gonna do more rentals or well?

SPEAKER_03: 32:25

No, the platform that is given us, Brad, has been an amazing platform. It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Um, we're currently getting more into commercial. So I was just um evaluating an industrial, like a three million dollar industrial office um conversion today. So we're getting more into conversion uh commercial. We do own a mobile home park. Uh, we got into Sky Zone Trampoline Parks. So we sold one of our rentals and we bought the rights to Sky Zone from Burlington, North Carolina.

SPEAKER_04: 32:51

Oh, get out of here.

SPEAKER_03: 32:52

That's great.

SPEAKER_02: 32:53

We have one here locally in Lancaster. There's one. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04: 32:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02: 32:55

I think can we go to we have because you guys are up at Spooky uh Spooky Nook, right?

SPEAKER_03: 32:59

Pittsburgh, we went to one too in that area.

SPEAKER_02: 33:02

I don't know if they're cool, they're really cool. Yeah, they're amazing.

SPEAKER_05: 33:06

And that's where uh franchises are huge and next for us as well. So uh my dream and goal has always been to own a chain of FECs. So um we'll definitely be owning quite a few um family entertainment centers, which are like sky zone.

SPEAKER_02: 33:22

Yeah, yeah, they're great, they're amazing. I know what I was gonna say. This is what I want to say. I love the fact that the price range you guys are doing, that's what I was gonna say, is is actually like you said, it's attainable. Yes, like a lot of these shows, you're like, oh, well, they bought it for 600, they put 300,000 into it, and now they sold it for a million and they made you know 100, 2,000, 200,000. That is just not that's not that's not my wheelhouse. That you know, that's not happening.

SPEAKER_03: 33:49

But yeah, they'll say the husband's a school teacher and he's getting very well. Right, he must be a professor.

SPEAKER_02: 33:55

Yeah, he's doing a side hustle for sure.

SPEAKER_05: 33:58

Yeah, you're wondering how you get the money to do a foot like that. Exactly.

SPEAKER_02: 34:02

But what I loved is it was totally in our your price range is is pretty much like ours. Like the house that you bought and what you sold it for, that's my bread and butter butter right there. That's my that's my life. So, like you bought it for 170, you sold it for 300. We would do that around here. Absolutely. And that's what it was. That was really cool because I don't think I've ever seen a flip show that actually had houses that to me were like real home. Like this everyday. Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_05: 34:29

Yeah, so that's I think that's why so many people gravitate towards it because they're like, this is the first flipping show that they've ever seen houses that a lot of them grew up in, houses that people drive by in neighborhoods they wouldn't necessarily stop in, but or this is my neighborhood, like, and I didn't realize the beauty of it anymore. Like, and that these houses can look like this.

SPEAKER_02: 34:51

Yeah, it's cool. So it's funny too. We have uh uh I've done podcasts with uh agents in California, Beverly Hills, and something that house that you sold there, that in the shape it was in when you bought it would have been 1.2 million in California.

SPEAKER_01: 35:03

Oh, we went to San Diego seriously, it's like you it just blows your mind. 1.6 million for three bed, two bath, fifth fix it upper. We were like, what? Who can afford that? So I always say, like, who who what are they doing? What do they do for work? Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_05: 35:18

We spoke to a realtor um out there because we were out there also for business, and we spoke to an agent. He was like, Yeah, it's the dirt.

SPEAKER_02: 35:26

Yeah, it's the dirt, it's the land. It's the land, yeah.

SPEAKER_05: 35:29

It's the dirt.

SPEAKER_02: 35:30

It's incredible, right?

SPEAKER_05: 35:32

Insane.

SPEAKER_02: 35:33

Yeah, it's amazing. Unbelievable. Well, I gotta say, I am so glad that you guys got on the show. Uh, we missed you a couple of weeks ago or months ago. Somehow we missed you. You were coming into Pittsburgh or something. I think your flight was leaving. Oh, leaving Pittsburgh. That's what it was.

SPEAKER_05: 35:48

From our son got invited to USA basketball camp out there.

SPEAKER_02: 35:52

That's great.

SPEAKER_05: 35:54

It started thundering, storming, and we got speculated.

SPEAKER_02: 35:58

Oh, wow. Well, it's not a bad city. I like Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh's pretty nice, actually. Can't beat it. It was well, thanks so much for coming on. I want you to come back again if you can to talk about your family entertainment centers that you're gonna be doing. Uh, I also want to talk about if you're gonna be doing a season three, if that actually happens, you guys got to come back on. So I want to talk about that too.

SPEAKER_01: 36:17

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_02: 36:18

It's been a pleasure, Brad. Thanks for having us. All right, you're very welcome. Thanks so much. All right, there you go. Dedrick and Crystal Polite. I gotta that last name. If you had the name like Polite as your last name, that's just wonderful. You can't be rude. Yeah, exactly. You can't you can't be rude. That's exactly right. But that's amazing. Make sure you check out this show. They have season one and season two of 50 50 flip. It's on A E. It's on Hulu. Uh, it is a great show. I'm gonna be watching more, but I want to watch season one because it sounds like it was pretty heated. All right, that's about it. Thanks for watching. It's every Thursday at 7 p.m. We will see you next week. Thank you.