You would be a big improvement from the San Antonio egomaniac.

Hi Ralph,

 Good Luck with getting on Flip this House, I well surely be one of your viewers, you're correct when you say you would like to tell people what really happens and the profits are not as big as you estimate.

 I look forward to seeing you on TV, let me know if you are scheduled.

Cheers, have an awesome day!

UP DATED Flip This House Casting Call

Team Ralph

Ralph R. Roberts
Author of Flipping Houses For Dummies

When I heard that Flip This House was having a casting call, I practically flipped right off the Pilates ball I sit on when I'm working out of my office! As a sales coach, consultant, real estate investor, and regular guy, I constantly advise students of real estate to look for win-win opportunities, and I see this is the mother load of win-win opportunities.

I am the author of Flipping Houses For Dummies and Foreclosure Investing For Dummies. I wanted to call the second book Flipping Foreclosures For Dummies, but the publisher nixed the idea. At any rate, I've been called the Best-Selling Realtor in America, the Human Tornado, the Madman Marketer, and a host of other names I'd rather not mention.

Unlike other real estate investment gurus who encourage people to flip houses for "big" profits, in my book, I tried to paint a more realistic portrait of the house flipping process. Throughout the book, I caution novice investors not to overestimate profits or under-estimate costs and help them steer clear of the most common pitfalls.

In 2003, I paid $3,000 on eBay for a 250 pound, 11-foot tall nail that has since become my trademark and the center of my branding campaign. The Big Nail, as the locals like to call it has made appearances at a host of fundraising events and has even marched in a parade celebrating the Detroit Pistons' winning the 2004 NBA championship. Thomas "Hit Man" Hearns, another Detroit icon, rode with the Big Nail along side of "the Nail Man," Ralph Roberts.

The Big Nail would love to make an appearance on Flip This House, where my team and I would show viewers how to nail that flip and nail the sale.

Introducing Team Ralph

My flipping team consists of a collection of eager, enthusiastic, and fun-loving characters who have a work ethic and sense of humor that is very characteristic of the Detroit Metropolitan area. Below are their bios.

Ralph R. Roberts is both a skilled house flipper and an avid mentor and coach with the skills to convey his knowledge to the rank beginner. At the age of 19, he purchased his first property using $600 he received as a graduation gift. Once the bug bit him, he would never stop. Ralph's first partner was his grandmother. She would put up the money for his investments on condition that he would take her out for lunch whenever he sold a house. Ralph has assembled what he believes is the premier house flipping team on the planet, and he's determined to get them on Flip This House to prove it. A seasoned veteran, Ralph can show viewers the right way to flip houses, although he's sure that his episodes will contain some of the unexpected happenings that occur whenever you're dealing in real estate.

Lois Maljak is the mortar that holds our team together. While I've been officially diagnosed as ADHD and unofficially diagnosed as being zany, Lois is the steady hand that guides the ship and keeps us all on track. Lois is also an expert in working the pre-foreclosure and foreclosure arenas. She has the empathy, understanding, and foreclosure knowledge to assist people who are facing foreclosure and often help them out of a bad situation while providing us with opportunities purchase properties below market value. Waging her own personal battle against MS, Lois continues to excel as a professional and an outstanding human being.

Jeff Roberts, Ralph's brother just stepped out of the 1950's-at least in terms of attitude, work ethic, and family values. Jeff was a key member of the team that raised the funds to build Fort Fraser, a 20,000 square foot playscape, which he also helped build. Jeff is devoted to the Big Nail, which he repaired after its tragic accident; he also functions as costume creator and official driver of the Big Nail during its many appearances. Owner of East Side Heating and Cooling and property manager for Ralph Roberts Realty, Jeff is the fix-it-up-chappy who spearheads the repairs and renovations for Team Ralph numerous flips. Jeff and wife Kathy have been married for 17 years and have five beautiful children-four boys and a daughter ages 16, 13, 8 (twins), and 6 years old.

Paul Corona, family man, salesman, and customer service specialist attributes the success of his 22-year career to his close family, solid middle-class values, and the game of golf. A lifelong resident of Metro Detroit, Paul admits to being one the area's most avid sports fans. He has been a season ticket holder to the Red Wings, Lions (don't laugh), Michigan football (please don't hold that against me, Spartans and Buckeye fans) and the Tigers through the years. Paul is the color man for Team Ralph, the guy who tells it like it is whether the flip is on track or destined to flop. He's built his career on being brutally honest in the face of Ralph's eternal optimism and is counted on by the rest of the team members to add a dash of drama to every project.

Jeannie Sample is a woman of many talents, drive, ambition, and bold ideas. As a high school graduate at 15 years of age, Jeannie started working part time for a Chicago-based land builder as she made her way through college. After selling several new homes the first week, she was a permanent shoe-in for successfully selling new construction homes and has thrived with it for the past 31 years. She has received a roomful of awards for her career achievements because she does not know the word "can't." She is well known for coaching the public on the subject of traditional real estate, buying and reselling homes, and purchasing brand new homes. She is also a fifth-generation writer and has great passion in all her many areas of interest-including managing a farm with over 165 animals that she and her husband have liberated from abusive situations. Jeannie's husband, Steve, also works for the team, assessing the condition of homes before they are bought, bidding out what it will cost to update and fix them, and then actually performing the repairs and renovations to bring the home up to market standards. 

Kandra Hamric, my standout virtual assistant, is our go-to gal for any and every project that Team Ralph sets its sights on. Kandra was a virtual assistant when only about three people in the country knew what a virtual assistant was. Part assistant, part resource manager, and part efficiency expert, Kandra has the knowledge, expertise, and overdrive required to keep our projects on track and on budget, and keep Ralph on task... something that requires an entire team by itself. Recognized by the National Association of REALTORS® as a Certified Real Estate Professional, and trained in transaction coordinating, Agent 2000, Top Producer, Realtor.com, Publisher, Adobe Photo Shop, and more, Hamric and her work-from-afar style represent the future of realty office management... and the future is now. Kandra is also a certified home stager, enabling Team Ralph to maximize their profit on every sale!

Sarah Hodges, known to the team (and to her mom) as "Sassy Sarah," launched her career with Team Ralph as an assistant in the HomeSavers Department-a fancy name for the team's foreclosure division. Voted Rookie of the Year, this bubbly blonde has served as the official Big Nail PR Director and Event Coordinator. Prior to taking a position at Ralph Roberts Real Estate, Sarah did business-to-business sales, averaging $400 per day doing strictly cold calls and visits. She is currently married to her husband of seven years, has four beautiful children, a bundle of energy, and the street smarts required to survive the rough and tumble world of flipping houses. She has even been known to take on the scary Ralph Roberts on occasion and put "creampuff, daisyboy" Paul Corona in his place! Although to keep her job, she may just deny everything.

Paul Doroh, cash buy agent and foreclosure expert, brings with him a 15-plus year history of teammate motivation. An NCAA All-American soccer player and captain of two NCAA National Championship runner-up teams, as well as a nationally and professionally licensed coach for several nationally ranked teams, Paul combines his success leadership, motivational knowledge, and unrelenting energy to spur on his teammates and manage projects from start to finish. Paul is on track to become an attorney and is currently studying for the bar... his teammates promise not to hold that against him.

Joy Santiago, gained her start farther from the real estate industry than any other member of Team Ralph. In 1990 Joy started booking entertainment travel through her family's company, A&J TRAVEL. Being a club kid, she was involved in booking travel for all the DJ's and artists of the dance music world... (she knew everyone's real name). In 1991, Joy launched her own booking and management agency, later to be called the MOSHI COMPANY, booking and managing many of the Detroit Techno and House music artists including Derrick May, Kevin Saunderson, Juan Atkins, Eddie Fowlkes, Richie Hawtin , John Acquiviva, Underground Resistance, Aux 88, Mike Banks, Jeff Mills, James Pennington, and the late Ken Collier. With over 17 years of sales experience, 10 years in the real estate industry, and several of her own investment properties under her belt, this real estate agent to the stars makes Team Ralph rock, roll, and rap through every flip.

Lauren Wroblewski launched her career in flipping early on, when, as a co-op student, she first joined Lois Maljak's foreclosure team, Homesavers. Although she started out handling some light clerical duties and data entry, she quickly rose in the ranks to eventually take on the role of managing the Homesavers staff and the front desk and providing onsite technical support. She left Lois and Homesavers a total of three times to try her hand at a host of professions, including paralegal, occupational therapy, physical therapy, business, and teaching, but she has returned each and every time. According to Lauren, "Other positions pale in comparison." On projects where sanity is lacking... which pretty much describes almost all of Team Ralph's flips, Lauren delivers the reason and good judgment that pulls everything together.

Sue Bernier is a devotee of details, serving in the closing department as the transaction coordinator, tracking all of the company-owned properties, managing land contracts, dealing with bank financing, and handling the general accounting for the office. Sue is perhaps the only one on the team who knows where to find every file and every document the team would ever need. Personally recruited by Ralph over eight years ago, Sue left her position working in the accounting department of a very large mortgage company to join Team Ralph, where she has become one of the most loyal members of the team. Whenever a team member needs to find Sue, they just follow her laugh-a most incredible and authentic laugh.

Jessica Ruddle is Team Ralph's resident video girl and photographer. She launched her career as a co-op student working for Ralph. After co-opping, she was occasionally hired to perform website maintenance until the team discovered that she was a PowerPoint presentation guru. A self-proclaimed neat freak, Jessica now serves as the team's tech support and organizational wizard, keeping everything organized and the computers up and running, so everyone else on the team can perform their own unique magic.

Trevor Fitzgerald joined Team Ralph in May of 2006 and has been trying to quit ever since, but Ralph and Lois just can't let him go. A senior at Michigan State University studying General Business Administration, Trevor couldn't wait to graduate before launching his own business ventures. Soon after he started working for Ralph in the office, he returned to school where he kept working for Ralph and then returned home, where he continues working for Ralph. An experienced Web developer, he started an open-source project, has worked on numerous Internet marketing campaigns, and assists in creating and managing Team Ralph's many websites and blogs. Trevor is one of the few people on Team Ralph who actually get excited when Ralph starts talking about his ideas for new websites and blogs. It must have something to do with the promise of job security.

Ismeta Preldzic hails from Bosnia, Herzegovina, and recently became an official citizen of the United States on June 14, 2007. For over 14 years, Ismeta worked as a quality control specialist before coming to the states over 8 years ago. Ismeta continues in her role as quality control specialist for Team Ralph, scrubbing and shining every imperfection out of every home they flip prior to placing the home on the market. Ismeta is fluent in German and English, is overjoyed to be working with Team Ralph, and is excited about the potential opportunity to appear on Flip This House. According to Ismeta, "As long as I am healthy, I will work with Ralph forever. I love Ralph, his family, and everyone on the team."

Visit My Websites and Blogs

I have a strong Internet presence that can drive additional viewers to your show. Check out my websites and other pages on the Web:

AboutRalph.com Speaking/Coaching

RalphRoberts.com Real Estate Site

FlippingFrenzy.com Mortgage Fraud

BigNail.com  Branding

MacombCountyVoice.com Community

GetFlipping.com Flipping Houses Site

ActiveRain.com Real Estate Network

MySpace.com MySpace

VREA.com Virtual Assistants

Call Me!

I am probably the easiest person in Detroit to find and get in touch with, because I plaster my face and contact information all over my marketing materials, business cards, websites, and outgoing email messages. If you can't find it by Googling me, something's terribly wrong, but just in case, here's my contact information (below). I look forward to talking with you and having you meet the top (and most diverse and interesting) house flipping team on the entire planet.

Contact me to set up an interview.

Ralph R. Roberts  GRI CRS
The Ambassador of Enthusiasm
"Official Spokesperson of Guthy-Renker Home"
Author of Flipping Houses FOR DUMMIES
Author of Foreclosure Investing FOR DUMMIES
Author of Advance Selling FOR DUMMIES

67775 Van Dyke
Washington Mi 48095
Office: 586-751-0000
Fax:   586-752-8959
Personal Assistant -Lois Maljak: 810-533-3448
Virtual Assistant- Kandra Hamric -734-446-0328

RalphRoberts@RalphRoberts.com

Great post we are flippers also and would like to see somone who really does what we do ont he show.  The latest teams really don't seem realistic.

Ralph, your personality and energy comes through on AR and I would LOVE to see you and your team on Flip This House! The public would benefit and learn from a seasoned investor.

So, what's the word? Did you nail Flip this house????

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