Michael Corbett - Find It, Fix It, Flip It!: Make Millions in Real Estate--One House at a Time

MICHAEL CORBETT is currently the real estate, home, and lifestyle host of TVs number-one news magazine Extra , and is host/producer of Extras Mansions & Millionaires , the hour-long weekend series that takes viewers on a sneak peak of the extraordinary mansions, yachts, and hobbies of the rich and famous.

This TV star turned real estate entrepreneur has been buying, renovating, and selling homes for more than fifteen years. His company, Highland Properties, has bought, restored, and sold dozens of homes and apartment buildings. Having personally flipped over thirty homes, this home expert is regularly featured on CNN and HGTV.

In addition to his current hosting and producing projects, Corbett has made his mark in daytime television. Voted Daytimes Most Lovable Cad by People magazine for his red-hot starring roles in three different soap operas, he first starred for three years on Ryans Hope for ABC, next for four years on Search for Tomorrow for NBC, and then for eight years, known as the sexy womanizer David Kimball, on The Young and the Restless , the CBS number-one daytime ratings grabber in the United States, Canada, and Europe.

Corbett has hosted and been featured on the Discovery Channel, HGTV, Live with Regis , Geraldo, The Montel Williams Show , and S ally , and has appeared in People magazine, Newsweek , and the Los Angeles Times , among others. Corbett also coproduced and hosted two seasons of Foxs successful Home Restoration and Remodeling Show , which featured many of Corbetts own renovation projects. He has also hosted the E! Network series Soap Dish , CBSs Action News L.A. , and numerous specials and cable projects.

Corbett recently concluded an enormously successful collaboration with HSN, where he premiered his Michael Corbett Collection of home improvement products sold exclusively on HSN. As HSNs Home and Lifestyle expert, he provided personally selected home products that Create a Lifestyle That Leaves You Time for Your Life!

Visit his Web site: www.MichaelCorbett.com

Make Millions in Real EstateOne House at a Time!

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Corbett, Michael, 1960
Find it, fix it, flip it!: make millions in real estateone house at a time / Michael Corbett; photography by Rand Larson.
p. cm.
ISBN: 978-1-1012-1940-9
1. Real estate investment. 2. House buying 3. House selling. 4. Real estate business. I. Title.

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