Our Crew Barely Escaped a Construction Fail

How many times have you been in the middle of a construction job on a rehab and you walked into the property and went, oh my gosh, what in the world is going on here? Hey everybody, I'm Dr. Toby Potter, the Unshakeable Investor, and I want to talk to you about one of my scariest rehab moments that just was unbelievable. So we had taken down a property over in Anna, Texas. and it was complete. It was a house that was built in 1915. So it was complete gut out, take it all the way down to the bones. And we were going to move some walls around, open up the kitchen, make a master bath, open up some bedrooms. And so we were doing a lot and we had to work on the subflooring. And so we had, this is probably our 12th or 13th house we had done in the last 6 months. So the crew was just churning and burning. We were doing really good. And I would drive to the property every morning, see where they start, and then every night I would show up and see where they finished up and just spot checking. And we showed up that morning. Everything looked great. They told me they were moving this wall around and they were opening this up. They're going to work on leveling up the floor and then we start putting in electrical and plumbing. So I thought, well, great. When I come in this afternoon, that's where I'll be. I drove back that afternoon. Ladies and gentlemen, and the house was leaning like this. The house was leaning like this, and they had 2x4s bracing it up. I'm like, oh my word, what the F is going on? And what they didn't realize, if you take a box and you have nothing in the middle, you can shift it and it gets cattywanker, right? They'd taken all the interior walls out and that house had nothing holding it together. We were seconds away from that house collapsing. Scariest thing I've ever seen in my life.