Welcome to out guide to House Flipper Remastered Collection
House Flipper Remastered Collection may appear rather simple at first glance. At least, based on the concept itself – you buy ugly houses, redecorate them and then sell them for profit. However, there is more to the game than meets the eye, literally. From skills improvement, buying preferences of your clients, to hidden rooms and competing with other gardeners in the neighborhood, there are many things that House Flipper offers beyond just painting the walls and putting in some radiators.
With so much time spent fixing up everything from starter houses to enormous mansions, I have found out that the key to making money playing House Flipper Remastered is speed. The quicker you figure out what’s important, the more money you will earn, and the sooner you will get to more exciting projects.
Regardless of whether you are a beginner or have been away from the game for quite some time, this tutorial includes all information about how to progress during the early stages, upgrade your assets, and even earn extra money to boost their value significantly.
Table of contents
- What is House Flipper Remastered?
- Starting Out: Email Jobs and Progression
- Save Files and Multiple Playthroughs
- Understanding Every Tool
- The First Perks You Should Unlock
- The Most Efficient Renovation Workflow
- Cleaning Secrets Most Players Miss
- Mini-Map Mastery
- Painting and Tiling Tricks
- Installation and Assembly Tips
- Hidden Mechanics That Save Time
- Hidden Rooms and Secret Treasures
- Making Money Fast
- Increasing Property Value
- Mastering the Garden Contest
- Common Beginner Mistakes
What is House Flipper Remastered?
In essence, the House Flipper Remastered is a game that is focused on house renovation and investment simulation. Players assume the roles of single renovation crews that will have to clean, fix, redesign, decorate, and ultimately sell these houses in order to earn money.
The initial part of the game will consist of performing small renovation works by fulfilling email contracts. This will help introduce players into the game and earn money that is needed to buy your own properties.
As soon as you gain some money, it is time to begin your actual game.
You can buy old and abandoned houses, fully renovate them, make your changes to interiors including demolishing walls and adding new rooms as well as decorating and furnishing these properties and ultimately selling them to potential clients. Money gained from selling such renovated houses enables buying even bigger and better objects.
What is important to remember is that you can change virtually anything within a house. You may sell furniture, knock down walls, redesign interiors, etc. The only thing that cannot be changed is the outer structure of walls.
Players that wish to extend their game experience will be happy to know that House Flipper Remastered features some additional DLC packages. These include major paid DLC packs like Garden Flipper, Luxury Flipper, HGTV Flipper, and Pets DLC pack, along with several free packs like Cyberpunk Flipper and Apocalypse Flipper. All of these provide new items and mechanics for players.

Starting Out: Email Jobs and Progression
At the beginning of the game, all you will get are emails with the jobs.
These jobs serve as tutorials but also give a lot of money and XP points needed to open up tools and bonuses. Although many players take their time reading all the emails before proceeding with work, this is unnecessary because on arriving at the location where you need to work, all objectives are listed on your tablet.
The tablet contains another trick known to few players. When a certain goal requires a specific tool or item, just selecting it from the task list will redirect you immediately to the page with that particular item. This could save you a considerable amount of time since you do not need to browse the category.
It is also worth mentioning that once you finish a job, it is not lost for good. After finishing the task, it goes to the completed jobs folder, and you can play it again. This feature becomes very valuable when working towards achieving 100% job completion.
Save Files and Multiple Playthroughs
Another unexpected issue that some new players face is creating a new game.
If you create a new game within an already established saved game profile, you will overwrite your previous game session. Luckily, in House Flipper Remastered, you can have more than one save game file. In other words, you can establish several game profiles instead of using just one.
This option would come in handy if you needed to try out different game techniques or wanted a brand-new game experience while keeping all previous progress untouched.
Understanding Every Tool
The game slowly makes new tools accessible rather than providing all at once.
Mop
The mop will be your first tool that helps to wipe off dirt from different surfaces like walls, floors, ceilings, and doors inside properties. When playing the outdoor version of the game, which is called Garden Flipper, the mop is substituted for the hose.
Vacuum
It is not a real tool but a special cleaning mechanism that pops up to get rid of cockroaches and smashed glass. In case you do not want to fight with cockroaches, then there is a possibility to substitute them for smashed glass.
Paint Roller
Together with the paint bucket, this tool enables repainting the walls and ceiling of properties. Even though initially the process can seem quite slow, with upgrades, it becomes much faster.
Selling Tool
This tool allows getting rid of unnecessary furniture and other items. Knowing which item to keep and which to sell is one of the keys to making money.
Sledgehammer
It breaks down the walls inside properties and uncovers hidden rooms within the building.
Wall Building Tools
Large and small wall segments enable you to design an entirely new layout for your rooms. Small walls can prove helpful while making doors.
Tiling Tools
Wall tiles become available to players much further into their progression and are mostly found in kitchens and bathrooms.
Flooring
No special tools are needed to install flooring, just buy it and put it down.
Flamethrower
Apocalypse DLC players get a flamethrower during some bunker upgrades. It is one of the quickest ways to dispose of trash.

The First Perks You Should Unlock
Improvements in skills greatly speed up the process of playing. Although all categories prove to be useful, some of them stand our much earlier.
The first thing you need to do is find ways to earn more money. The faster you progress, the better houses you can get. Also, cleaning improvements will definitely make your life easier. Speed up the cleaning process to save a lot of your time on doing the most annoying tasks. There is one perk that I would recommend everyone who plays this game. It allows seeing the dirtier spots on the map.
Next, consider handyman skill improvements. It makes installing appliances like sinks, radiators, plugs, and other equipment much faster and easier.\Painting improvements are absolutely worth paying attention to. One of the perks helps avoid wasting paint on wall parts that have already been painted.
Last but not least are tiling skill upgrades. They allow installing several tiles at once.
The Most Efficient Renovation Workflow
After flipping dozens of houses, I’ve found a renovation order that consistently minimizes frustration.
Each time I step into any particular home, I go through this process.
- First, remove all the garbage.
- Second, sell everything unnecessary.
- Third, clean dirt, stains, windows, and any other clutter.
- Fourth, demolish or erect the walls.
- Fifth, fix the plastering.
- Sixth, paint, tile, and lay down the floor.
- Seventh, put up fixtures and appliances.
This particular order makes sure that there are no such instances where things put in place block your way of doing more work elsewhere.
Cleaning Secrets Most Players Miss
Cleaning might seem easy enough but there always is one room that does not reach the magic 100% regardless of what you do. This problem stems from the existence of hidden dirt. Hidden dirt might be found in many different places such as stains behind plants, behind the radiator, on the door frame, at the bottom of the window niche, under furniture, and even at the top of the exterior walls of the building. Once, in the case of a certain house which had visible dirt in the mini-map despite being seemingly clean, the stain was discovered to be located near the roof of the building outside. In this instance, the mini-map becomes your best friend.
By having the proper perks unlocked, dirt will be shown in the actual map making it a lot easier to spot. Targeting plays an important role as well.Instead of cleaning by contact with the mop, it cleans wherever the small targeting cursor is placed. If it is not placed right over the dirt, cleaning does not occur. A frequent mistake is forgetting to clean windows. Don’t forget them during your final cleanups.
Mini-Map Mastery
Mini-map serves more purpose than pointing out soil. Red icons will notify you about devices that require installation and/or replacement. Green icons indicate devices installed successfully. Other objects such as trash, walls, and other objectives can be marked with icons on the mini-map too. Even zooming in your mini-map can help you locate hard-to-find objectives. Getting used to the mini-map helps you complete jobs and property flips faster.

Painting and Tiling Tricks
Painting becomes significantly easier when the paint efficiency perk is unlocked. Otherwise, the roller keeps adding paint until the surface is fully covered, resulting in wasted material. By using the perk, painting will end automatically when full coverage has been reached. A common mistake made by many players involves forgetting about the indented sections in windows. Interior windows usually contribute to the room completion percentage. Perks allowing you to paint several walls at the same time are useful, although some players like to paint one wall after another for more precise control. The benefits of tile efficiency upgrades are enormous – placing several tiles at once makes one of the most time-consuming actions into the easiest and fastest one.
Installation and Assembly Tips
The installation process becomes much simpler later on. When installing outlets, an effective method of doing it is attaching all the wires before securing any screws to save time from moving the mouse. If you encounter leakage while installing either a sink or an appliance, no need to worry since this only causes puddles of water that will just be cleaned later on. Sometimes, installing tall fixtures like showers may be a challenge, but the solution might be as simple as getting rid of a ceiling light occupying the same area.
Hidden Mechanics That Save Time
In House Flipper Remastered, there are many tricks that are not quite clear at first sight. Even without a door, a room will still be considered a room. Quite often, large openings or inlets allow keeping room status and providing larger room dimensions. If you made a mistake placing the door and want to change its position, there is no need to return this item for sale. Just hit the door with a sledgehammer. Another useful trick is adding multiple photos from the gallery folder instead of adding individual pictures. Ascending order by price is a nice option to use when trying to save some extra money.
Hidden Rooms and Secret Treasures
There are houses that have rooms built inside walls. This is because there will be treasures inside these rooms such as paintings that have high value and can cost more than $10,000. When acquiring new properties, I am very careful about looking at the layout design and check for any dead space or inaccessible room. Whenever I do not get what I see, I use my sledgehammer. Just one single painting can provide enough profits to totally change the economics of the house renovation project.
Making Money Fast
One of the fastest ways to earn some money is when you deal with properties containing hidden treasure. One such property is the one that features a secret room built behind a wall in the basement. The secret room holds an important artwork with a value of more than forty thousand dollars on its own. Add to this the simple cleaning process, the fixing of some parts, the installation of radiators, a toilet, and the negotiation of the final selling price, and the earning potential increases significantly. The negotiation advantage comes into play in this case. Any small amount added to the final selling price can make a huge difference to your income.

Increasing Property Value
Cleaning does matter, yet several other features always add value to houses.
Bedrooms
Additional bedrooms create additional buyer attraction. Luckily, creating a bedroom is rather easy since any room containing all necessary furniture will be called a bedroom.
Bathrooms
Bathrooms, too, bring substantial value to properties. To call a room a bathroom, it should have a sink, toilet, and either shower or bathtub.
Storage Areas
There is practically no buyer who does not appreciate storage spaces. Bookshelves, shelving units, filing cabinets, garage storage systems – everything helps make a good impression.
Decoration Items
Having some decoration items is helpful. Obviously, you do not need to create an entire decor concept; a couple of carpets, flowers, pictures, and sculptures will often suffice.
Sauna Rooms
Among the best improvements, there is a sauna room. You can either build a sauna room featuring several benches and saunas or purchase a shower-sauna system for a similar result.
Gym
Another way of making your house more attractive is a gym. It normally consists of an exercise machine and wall bars.
Indoor Pools
If space allows, indoor pools provide another substantial value increase.
Mastering the Garden Contest
Garden Flipper has one of the most profitable systems in the whole game. Properties become valuable during garden competitions, sometimes even by over 30%. Some categories have been created such as American, Modern, English, Japanese, and Crop Gardens. In terms of efficiency, the easiest types of gardens are American and Japanese. The procedure is not too hard. Just clean up your yard, get rid of any weeds, trim the grass, plant some flowers, place items that correspond to the chosen category, add some lights, and submit your property.
An ordinary garden brings you a lot of money, up to thousands.
Common Beginner Mistakes
- The biggest mistake new players make is rushing.
- Many install appliances before cleaning and later discover dirt hidden behind them.
- Others sell leftover paint or tiles too early, only to realize they need them again later in the renovation.
- Another common mistake is ignoring perks. Skill points should be spent immediately because efficiency upgrades help unlock future upgrades faster.
- Many beginners also forget windows, hidden dirt, exterior cleanup, and secret rooms, all of which leave money on the table.
The thing that makes House Flipper Remastered Remastered so engaging is not only that it is fun to renovate but also that there is always something else to learn. The player improves with each renovated home.
The most important tips for succeeding at the game are very clear and understandable: use perks, rely on the mini-map, clean everything, look for secret rooms, fill all the rooms, use saunas and storage spaces, and don’t forget the importance of having a well-maintained garden.
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