In today’s article, our House Flip with Chip and Jo cheats: tips and guide will help you make sure that you’re flipping houses virtually for the highest profits and getting everything done as you should. Because house flipping is fun, but not easy – even if it’s just a game.!
House Flip with Chip and Jo is a very simple game in concept: you buy an old house, you renovate it and redecorate it, then you flip it for profits. It sounds easy enough, but if you’re not paying attention to a few important things, you can end up on the red and out of the business. So today’s article will help keep it fun and safe by guiding you through everything that you should know and do to make things work.
So let’s not waste any second and let’s check out some House Flip with Chip and Jo tips and tricks in our beginner’s guide below.
Always go for three star remodels
There are a ton of things that you can and should do to a newly bought fixer upper in order to cash in on the profits. They are all listed in the menu and the more things you do, the higher your star rating will go. And that should be your main priority.
Trying to sell a house with less than three stars is risky, as you could end up making little or not profits at all – and that makes no sense. Actually, your progress will me much slower if you don’t sell for big profits, as houses and remodeling becomes more and more expensive.
The easiest way to get the three stars each time is to simply follow the problems in the menu: Start with the Problem areas, move to “staging” and “Needs Improvement” and keep fixing things until you get everything done. As soon as you hit three stars, there’s no need to invest more in that house: just put it on the market and sell it for profits!
Take your time when selling
Most likely, the first offer you get will be a really poor one. Don’t hurry to accept it! Instead, take your time and wait for the right offer to come.
You can see if the clients are the ones you need by tapping the info button on their offer and seeing how many of the three needs are met. Those with the higher number of needs met will give you the best offer: take it and start working on a new house!
Pay attention to the requirements of the area/customers
There are two types of things you can work on within each house: construction and staging. Tapping each will give you an info button at the bottom of the screen, showing you the preferences of future clients.
For Staging, you can choose from Traditional, Modern, French Inspired and so on – simply tap the button at the bottom of the screen to see what clients prefer and only buy those types of items.
When working on construction, see if that’s a low or high income area. Use the cheapest products when a low income neighborhood is selected, but spend the money when you’re in a luxury area.
In the end, it all resumes to this: offer the customers exactly what they want and you’re going to get huge profits when flipping the house!
The things you place inside the house doesn’t matter
Unfortunately, your choices of colors or objects to place in the houses don’t seem to have any effect at all. Going for a red paint instead of a grey one seems to make no difference, which is really sad. But you can role play yourself and always follow a design trend that you enjoy and make houses exactly as you’d like them to be.
Don’t forget about the missions
The main missions get you though the game’s story and offer a good way to earn some premium currency. The missions are extremely simple too, so always keep an eye on them and start working on the requirements for your current mission when you take on a new house. Most of the missions require you to redecorate a specific area of the house.
These would be, for now, our tips and tricks for the cute House Flip with Chip and Jo game. If you have other strategies to share with fellow players (or questions), let us know by commenting below.
Thank you for the tips!!! Great article!!
Brooke again!
I am actually out of money on the current house I am doing and I seem to be stuck and can’t carry on with the game! Any tips??? I only have $2,000 left and a bigger house that I’ve barely started! lol. Thank you!!!
Sell it for whatever you can — you don’t need 3 stars to sell. You might lose some money but you’ll have most of your money back. Same thing happened to me.
It won’t let me sell a house if it only has one star
It won’t let me list my house I have 1 Star and no money what should I do?
Then you’ll just have to keep collecting your money trees until you have enough money to get to 2 stars.
I can’t sell my current house. It’s showing I still have a construction worker out somewhere working. But I am not working on anything. How do I fix it
That means you did the same job twice and it’s waiting for you to approve that job. You have to go to that room to find him and approve him. I just did the same thing. Good luck!
I am also having this problem but I went to every room and through everything and still can’t find him. Any ideas?
I.m having the same problem!
Click on your Jobs (the bottom left corner with the stars). Scroll down to Other Jobs and click the Plus Symbol. This will expand the jobs. You should be able to find the construction worker from this.
has anyone found the pitfalls/fortunes? i’m in san diego and have 0/3 of those achievements
No, I haven’t gotten as far as you and was wondering when I’d see them
What should I do about Pitfalls and Fortunes when they appear?
We’re currently revamping our Pitfalls and Fortunes system, but that update is coming soon.
While every renovation or staging has the chance that a Pitfall or Fortune appears, being nimble on making renovation changes can be a huge opportunity.
I have no money left and still need to do renovations, how can I sell my house? It won’t let me because I only have 1 star. Please help!
I’m having the same problem I don’t know what to do
I cannot get enough money to buy a house in San Diego. I Keene flipping for a profit but nothing substantial!
When I don’t have enough money I Flip houses from other states until I have enough for one house.
How do u get more construction workers
You have to click on the little construction worker on the upper right side of the screen. It costs hearts to “hire” more.
What is the most construction workers you can hire? I have seven and it doesn’t seem like I can get more.
I am having trouble keeping elbow grease up. I click on it all the time but never get back to full
You can buy more elbow grease (with hearts). Just click on the plus sign under the elbow grease drop and it’ll take you to where you can purchase it. It should be at the bottom of the screen.
To get more elbow grease per hour, you need to add contractors. You can either buy hearts to get additional contractors or complete the challenges. Completing the challenges rewards you with a small amount of cash with hearts as well.
What’s the best way to get more hearts without purchasing them? I went to all the open houses and collected hearts from the magnolia trees but it says I’m out of workers and can’t do any more work to my house without them.
The workers are only busy while they’re competing the various projects you had selected. Once you complete the projects, tap the button in the room your project is in to collect and get your contractor back. To get more hearts without buying them, complete the challenges the game has set up. The rewards for completing the various challenges are both money and hearts.
I’m wondering how do receive, and give consultations. I’m wanting to complete my achievements list!
I don’t know exactly but I think it’s when you ask a friend about your property through Facebook. Or when a friend asks you. I have been unable to successfully get the Facebook part working as of yet.
Consultations are a feature that will be available in one of our next updates. We’ll be making an announcement on Facebook with more details as we get close to release! We know you want to get those consultation rewards, so keep an eye out for updates.
How can I open up the appliances? What do I have to have upgraded?
I need this answer as well!!!
You have to get to level 4 on cabinets or the light bulb thing i think
Is there a way to know what income level area a house is before you buy it?
I don’t believe so. Just make sure you use the lower cost materials for the lower income level properties and there shouldn’t be an issue.
I have 7 workers currently and I am in salt lake city… will I be able to purchase more as I level up? I feel like the game play is a little slow so being able to complete more jobs would help to speed things along. I dont have time to long on several times a day so currently I’m only able to flip one maybe 2 houses per day. Also, are we ever able to buy more than one house at a time?
I am in the same spot. Would like an answer too.
You can buy 1 house in each city at a time. You still get the same number of workers for each house no matter how many houses you have.
Any way you can buy multiple houses in one city at a time.? Do s this feature unlocks someone later ? I’d like to flip more than one house in Pheonix at the same time..
When you click on a house to review it prior to buying you can choose house details to see income level, decor desired for area and family composition. The issue, for me though, is with what’s unlocked I choose the better materials for medium and high but when I sell it, it changes and I typically don’t get my full profit. If I do, it doesn’t match the three criteria, It’s frustrating. I also used to be able to see what links to what for skills and construction to know what needing upgrading in order to open something I need but now I can’t.
Yeah it does say when u click on house details
It usually tells you in the house details
I am not able to move forward in the game as I ran out of money and have no stars on the current property… can someone help me with this??
I would sell the property for the highest amount you can. I’ve learne
Learned to only buy properties where I can afford the cost of the house and renovations. I’ve had to buy multiple homes in cities first before going to the next location. Even if I had the next location unlocked. I’ve found that you need about $100k for renovations in Phoenix.
My house is ready to “list” but when I tap the list button, it doesn’t do anything. Help!
Me too. I dont know what’s going on
It says I have one contractor left doing a job but I have no jobs currently going and I can’t enter the house to check the rooms… help!
Same problem, tried force closing but nothing
Same problem. Did anyone find an answer
Same problem! I’m stuck! Help!!
Same problem! I can’t even get back in to the house to check the rooms
Restart the system you’re using. It’s the app. It’s done that to me multiple times even after I sell a house. It freezes and I haven’t found another way to fix it. Tempted to stop playing it altogether. Not quite what I’d hoped it would be.
Restart the system you’re using. It’s the app. It’s done that to me multiple times even after I sell a house. It freezes and I haven’t found another way to fix it. Tempted to stop playing it altogether. Not quite what I’d hoped it would be.
When selling a house can you go past 6 offers?
Yes you can, the house lists for 4 hours and you keep getting offers throughout that time.
I have completed all task to seek the property.
I shoes me list price but it will not allow me to list the the home
Is there any way to increase the market? (For example, when it says market is freezing, cold, warm, hot, etc). Can anything extra that you do to the house increase the market & profit? Thanks!!
I just force quit and reopen it until it gets to the type of market I want.
Even after my jobs were done and I collected the contractors don’t come back, I can’t get more hearts with out buying them… how do I get the contactors back?
Same problem!!!!
What and where do I find pitfalls and fortunes?? I don’t know what they are or where they are.
Help me get my contractors out of the house
How do I achieve the “generous jo” and “friends indeed” achievements?
How do I see the neighboorhood comps?
Well the game ever allow me to do more than one house at a time? This hours and hours of waiting for test to get done is ridiculous
Unfortunately, it’s one house at a time.
New update this week let’s you do multiple houses
How? Do I need more then 3 workers? To buy a 2nd house?. I keep trying & it won’t let me
You can buy & renovate multiple houses in separate cities, not in the same city. The number of contractors you have will be the same in each city (for instance, if you have three in Waco, you’ll have three in Kansas City and each subsequent city). When you add more contractors (there’s a maximum of seven), you’ll get more in all cities. Do what you can to increase and save as many hearts as you can — and avoid using your hearts for anything other than contractors until you have all seven available.
Agree! There needs to be a way to gain more hearts and at a faster rate. I will not purchase them, I addicted to this game… HOWEVER I am beyond frustrated at having to wait 5+ hours to get one kitchen project completed because I don’t have enough hearts to spend, and no way to earn the 152 it takes. I am about to delete it. It’s very frustrating wanting to play and move on but no way to do it. I’ve had to wait so long that I’m basically over it.
I totally agree with you. It is also frustrating that as you move up to different cities and get more skills it costs more elbow grease to complete the jobs, completely using up elbow grease before I can finish a house. I am currently in Seattle, my elbow grease was completely charged up and I have used up most of my elbow grease and am not close to finishing the renovations. Incredibly frustrating! Ended up deleting the game today because it has become frustrating than fun! You should not have to purchase hearts to get more elbow grease.
Your elbow grease rejuvenates with time. Just a bit of patience- go play something else and you’ll be full again.
How do you flip more than one property at a time? I see that pitfalls are being updated but what is a pitfall fortune?
The current mission is to remodel a cape cod but no cape cods are available in any city! Is there a way to make the houses to reset on what’s available?
What city are the cape code house in ! And the Spanish ones as well ! Help
Cape cods are inSalt Lake City but not every time. They pop up every now and again. The Spanish ones are in San Diego
I am running out of elbow grease and can’t seem to build enough up
You are not addressing the issues stated above and that I am having. (1) I have one contractor out, I can’t get back into the house, (2) I have three stars and it won’t let me list the property. (3) How do I get back into the house?
I sometimes have this problem. I force close the game and reopen it. It usually fixes the problem. Hope that helps
I have the same issue and force closing does not fix it. Help
Hello… I have found that a lot of times I will find the contractor listed underneath additional jobs. Other than that I have to go through every single room to try and see where they are at. When I had a two story house that was really confusing until I figured out the arrow was to navigate floors. Other than that would recommend a force close and hopefully they come back :)
How do i earn the stars for the pitfalls and generous Jo?
I finished everything but redid a room. Now the game won’t let me enter the house to get the last construction worker. What do I do?
Look under extra jobs. You should find your construction worker there
I can’t seen to get the notification to go away. I’ve checked everything in the app and nothing works.
How do I tell what is classic and what is contemporary when staging please help ASAP CAN YOU GIVE ME A LIST OR SOMETHING
Classic is the traditional track and contemporary is the modern track.
when you push the “staging” tab (flower vase) at the bottom of the screen it should say CLASSIC or CONTEMPORARY. Press that. A little bubble will pop up and give a description of what falls under that category so you can stage accordingly.
Click the info bubble where it says classic or contemporary and it tells you. Classic is traditional and French inspired and contemporary is modern and mid century modern
How do you unlock the city after Seattle? I’ve fulfilled the needed house flips but it will not unlock.
I’m have the same question. I’m wondering if you have to reach Mogul status ($5m in profit)?
Might be a future update
How do I get generous jo points and also hidden treasures?
I don’t know how to do the fortune finder and my game won’t connect to Facebook.
Where are the siteseeings?!! I have only found 9 out of 12 and I am in San Diego already. Are they hidden ones that don’t spark?
I’m having the same issue cant find anymore than 9!
me too… anyone have any idea? It looks like there are two in each city except salt lake city – unless there’s a second one there that I am missing? I am in Seattle now but only have 11 out of 12
I’ve literally just messaged them to ask this, I’m in Seattle and found 11/12 but only one in Salt lake
Is anybody actually getting profit levels of 150k or more!?! My profits are usually more like 20k or maybe as much as 60k but that’s the best I can do. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong. I complete all 3 stars. I follow the staging style for the neighborhood and I stick to the income level. Do you guys do a bunch of extra jobs to get a better profit?
I’ve tested only doing minimal 3 star work in low income houses and doing various levels of more work. I’ve come to the conclusion that my best profits across every city and every income level are when I renovate each house to the max. Full kitchen and bath remodels and flooring and paint and lighting elsewhere. I use the highest grade of material available to me for everything.
I don’t know what city you are in but I have been able to make more than $150 starting in San Diego and flipping High Income properties
How does the mini game match it work? It seems to just be a chance game but it’s claimed to not be.
It looks like chance to me however I have had some increased luck only turning over tiles grouped in one section on the right side.
i have $500 left and i don’t know how to get more money help!! i already tried deleting and restarting the app.
How do you unlock appliances?
My last staging screen is frozen and i can’t go on. I brings up the last thing I did even though it has nothing to do with the bathroom and there is no confirm button. HELP
Some times when you go to post a house it says the narket is cold warm freezing or hot. How do i make it hot
How do you remodel the hallway? Flooring and paint?
It remodels with rooms that are connected especially when the flooring is the same in them. It’s only dine it for me once though
The hallway is usually attached to the living room.
How do I turn the sounds off? So much louder than anything else on my tab,et.
Press the achievements button and you’ll see a settings button nearby and it’s takes you right to music and sound on and off buttons
It will only let me buy one house at a time? And my appliances are locked help
Found an answer! Unlock appliances by leveling up your lighting.
I’m doing this now, I’ll let you know if it works.
It worked
Happy gaming
I started a renovation that includes a need I don’t have unlocked yet (appliances) what do I do?
Tried finishing everything else, didn’t unlock. Can’t buy another house to level up on.. help!
Can you knock down walls in this game?
Apparently this will soon be an option.
How do I unlock pavement?
By upgrading floors to level four
Is there a way to get more color options for painting in rooms
I’m trying to use thing on the game that arent unlocked yet but are requesting to be used like getting a new washer and dryer or replacing the fencing outside, I cant figure out how to unlock those things when I thought by now I’d already be able to use most things on the game.
Look at your skill tree, more stuff unlocks the more you do certain tasks. It takes a while to level up the landscaping. It’s worth it. I always do landscaping even if it’s not suggested because it seems to raise the value of the house (and it looks way better too, lol!)
Cathy, how do you do something that isn’t suggested? Terry?
How do I click into the skill tree. Sometimes I have the option and other times not!
I started playing House Flip,I made it to level three while ago,I bought a house ,one the task is to buy appliances, BUT MINE are locked..WHAT DO I DO TO GET THEM UNLOCK
do as many lighting renos that you can and eventually Appliances will unlock. Look at the skill tree by clicking on the Magnolia supply center where you get your elbow grease and you can see what you need to unlock new skills. Hope that helps!
I ran out of money in the middle of a house and I’m stuck and I only have $250. So can you help me get unstuck?
Sell the House! even if you didn’t finish everything, you should still be able to sell it for more than you bought it. then go in lower levels and build up money so you can afford the higher levels and those houses. I am working on unlocking Chicago now and I don’t have time to finish all the stuff so I shoot for 1 or 2 stars, leave the rest, and I normally still make some profit, just trying to get the number of houses sold to get to the next level.
How do I open appliances in the kitchen it’s in my tasks but its not available yet
I’m in Chicago and I don’t see any landmarks. I have visited 11/12 landmarks so far but where is the 12th?
Did you ever figure this out? I’m having the same problem!
This is my question as well.. Did you ever figure it out?
I’m on Phoenix, AZ, and want to buy a craftsman house but don’t like the floors in the hallway, is there anyway to change them!? I haven’t figured that out yet!!
Change the floors in the adjoining room and it will also change the hallway. Usually the dining room or living room.
When can u renovate more then 1 house?
Hello everyon! I’m new to this game. I need some help. I have only 432 dollars left, and I don’t know what to do now. I can’t buy anything and I don’t know how to make more money. If anyone can help I will be appreciated.
thank you, Sonja
Sell the house and get your money back, when I’m running low on cash I just flip houses in Waco until I’ve built my capital up. Save money also by skipping extra jobs, you’ll still make good profit.
What if it wont let u sell it?
Can you cancel a reno youve started the one im on reqires small good appliances im not at that levrl. And can you renovate more than one house at a time
I’ve tried it and it hasn’t let me so I’m guessing not, still trying to see
Can you buy more than one house at a time?
It only lets you buy one
NO, not at the moment.
The last few times that I’ve bought a high income house, it shows up as medium income when listed…why is that?
Anyone crack the random generator for the mini game yet? I’d love to know some tips or tricks for that.
Sometimes it seems as if the pieces needed are all bunched together in one area on the right side.
Im fixing up a house and I 2 stars..I says bathroom number 2 needs staging…Ive went through all of traditional and modern and I still have only 2 stars. Everything else is fixed. Any ideas?
Does anyone know if there are 2 landmarks in each city?
So far I have found two in every city except for Salt Lake! It’s saying 11/12 in my achievements and so I can’t get my reward until the salt lake one adds another…. unless I am missing it :(
Same here — but when I look at the overall map view, there seems to be an icon (a black certificate & red hazard sign) suggesting there’s another achievement I could unlock. This is the only city thus far with only one landmark, and that’s the next achievement I’ve yet to complete.
I wish someone would answer this, it’s driving me insane
me too!! Someone help!
How do I unlock asphalt, concrete and so on? I purchased a house and I need to redo the driveway and its locked I can’t sell the house without it being done. And help would be great!!
The problem I am having is, I can’t rotate the screen, I can’t click on my elbow grease or daily hearts, and I can’t select a new house to buy. I have uninstalled, shut down and reinstalled. Nothing works. Any ideas?
If they r full it wont let u
I have plenty of Capitol but I can’t even buy a single house! I just got passed the tutorial and I cant do anything…..so what can i do?
I’m out of capital and now stuck as I can’t complete my renovation.. so what I can do to get more capital?
Please help
I bought a house and have a few things left to do but no money and no stars. It will not let me sell the house and i cant get more money… What do i do HELP STUCK
Come back every 5 hours when your money trees refill and collect until you have enough money to go on.
When do other staging levels unlock. Are in Seattle but only have traditional,french.mid centry modern and modern all at level 7
I’ve noticed that if I upgrade past the 3 stars it increases my profits on each house. ( except very low income areas)
I have 11/12 landmarks..
Does anyone know where the 12th landmark is?
Same dilemma.
Two questions: 1) how many landmarks per city? I can only find one in Salt Lake; 2) when you reach the max elbow grease and you win at the mini game, what happens to those elbow grease? Thank you.
1) only 1 in Salt Lake City so 7/12 at that point.
2) you basically lose those elbow grease so best wait to play the game till you are down on elbow grease by at least the max you can win.
I finish my building all of my houses in Chicago but now it won’t let me go to NYC and renovate there. Please help.
What are the scrolls with the red exclamation?? I have 2
I have 2 of them too. I have no idea what they are.
I believe they show certain daily missions
I have one over Kansas City right now and 1 of my achievements is to flip 2 houses in Kansas City.
I’m on level 5 for all staging options but I’ve done 2+ houses as French inspired but it staying stuck at the same level in the same spot I’m not getting any of my benefits from it like normal how do I fi x it?!?!?!? Help please?! Thanks in advance!
When will New York open? I’m getting tired of the old ones.
How many landmarks should there be in each city? I’m in Salt Lake and I only have 7/12 landmarks.
Also what are the scrolls with the red symbol on the map next to the cities?
7/12 landmarks is all there are through Salt Lake City. We have to wait till we unlock new cities to get more.
When does new york unlock ?
How do I get more elbow grease I’m out?????
Elbow grease fills up with time. Click on magnolia again after you have collected and it will show you your collection rate. Mine fills up every 8 hours.
Is it possible to start all over again from the beginning? I want to start over. I deleted the app but if i download the app again then it goes further where i was..
Can someone help me with this
I am up to Salt Lake City. I have been very successful (never running out of money or elbow grease, AND never being told I need to remodel something I haven’t unlocked yet) by always working on 1 house in each city and for the most part I have been remodeling each house to the max.
I like to paint all my rooms the same color and usually in doing so my hallway just turns the same color, but my hallway won’t change and I’m pretty sure you can’t click into your hallway, so what do I do to change it’s paint color?
You have to paint the adjoining room….)usually living room) and it will change the hallway color as well.
How do I edit a house after I already put it on the market? I accidentally double clicked and now the house I just bought is for sale!
What is a gold tycoon?
If you click the tiny letter “i” in the corner of the mission it will tell you the capital net worth you need to have to earn it (meaning amount of cash)
I’ve literally just messaged them to ask this, I’m in Seattle and found 11/12 but only one in Salt lake
What do you do if you don’t have enough money to get a house (rent or sale)? I am in the negatives and I don’t know how to get out.
How to unlock appliances?
When is Florida going to open up? Waiting for new cities.
I have close to 15 million capital! What do O do with it. How do I use it?
Help! Please… I’ve had my house listed, but no offers even coming close to what it’s listed for, they are too low. I’ve been through about 15-20 bids, what can i do to get my house sold at a profit?
Hey guys first time poster here. I’m up to the level where I have to do roofing, appliances and the cement and I have no idea how to unlock them to complete my house. Please help!!!!