r/House
Know the rules before you post. So easy grandma can do it.
- To post
- No minimum in the rules
- To comment
- No minimum in the rules
- Self-promotion
- Not mentioned in the rules
- Links
- Not mentioned in the rules
- Promo risk
- Medium
- From the rules, not from removal counts
- Community age
- 12 years
- Since Jan 2014
About r/HouseFlipping
A source-backed Rankhog guide to r/HouseFlipping: public rules, community context, posting fit, and startup-promotion risk before you publish.Checked from the r/HouseFlipping rules on Reddit.
r/HouseFlipping rules
No subreddit-specific rules were displayed on the public rules page when Rankhog verified it on 2026-10-21.
What to post in r/HouseFlipping
What fits the room, and what gets removed.
Works well
- A walkthrough of a flip you finished, showing the before and after and what you learned.
- A question about a real decision you face, like whether a repair is worth the cost before resale.
- A breakdown of one room or one system you renovated, with photos and honest numbers if you have them.
- A lesson learned from a mistake on a flip, told plainly so others can skip the same pain.
- A comment that answers someone else's flipping question with your own experience, no links attached.
Avoid
- Dropping the same promotional link in post after post, which is exactly the spam the moderator one-liner warns about.
- Posting content that has nothing to do with house flipping, like generic business advice or off topic product launches.
- Showing up only to sell, with no history of commenting on other people's flips.
- Dressing up an ad as a flip story, because a post with no real project behind it reads as spam fast.
- Mass posting the same message across many subreddits including this one, which is the textbook definition of spamming a community.
Best hours to post in r/HouseFlipping
No pattern yet. r/HouseFlipping does not have enough top posts from the last 90 days to name its best hours.
What r/HouseFlipping Is For
This is a community for people who share and comment on house flips. The public description is short and says exactly that. So the room is made up of flippers showing their projects, people thinking about their first flip, and folks who enjoy seeing a worn down property turned into something better. There are no published rules on the rules page, which tells you the community leans on common sense rather than a long rulebook. The moderator one-liner fills the gap with two asks. Keep posts relevant to house flipping and do not spam the community.
What To Post
Post things a house flipper would genuinely want to read. That means a flip you worked on with photos and what you learned, a question about a real decision you are facing, a breakdown of a repair or renovation with honest numbers, or a lesson from a deal that went sideways. If you are a founder doing Reddit marketing, the respectful play is to join the conversation first. Answer questions, share your own experience with flips, and let people notice you before you ever mention what you sell. When you do share something promotional, tie it tightly to house flipping and keep it to a single post rather than a stream of them, because that is what the moderator one-liner asks for.
What To Avoid
There are no published rules to quote here, so the guidance comes straight from the moderator one-liner. The first thing to avoid is spam, which means repeated promotional posts, the same link dropped over and over, or showing up only when you have something to sell. The second thing to avoid is posts that have nothing to do with house flipping, because the moderator explicitly asked for relevance to the topic. A good self check is simple. If a post would only make sense coming from a marketer and not from a flipper, it probably reads as spam here.
A note from Anthony
A community with no published rules always makes me pause before I post, because the unwritten bar is usually higher than the written one. Here the moderator one-liner does a lot of work in very few words, and relevance plus no spam is really the whole contract. With no observed top posts to learn from, I would start as a commenter and watch what gets upvoted before I share anything of my own.
By Anthony Riera, founder and operator of Rankhog. Every guide is built from the community's own public rules and data, then checked by Rankhog's grounding audit before it goes live.
Common questions about r/HouseFlipping
What subreddits are similar to r/HouseFlipping?
Subreddits like r/HouseFlipping are r/realestateinvesting, r/AusPropertyChat, r/CommercialRealEstate and r/WholesaleRealestate.
Can I promote my product or service here?
The rules page shows no published rules, so promotion is not explicitly banned, but the moderator one-liner warns against spamming. Occasional promotion that is relevant to house flipping and not repeated is the safest reading.
Are links allowed in posts?
Nothing in the published rules bans links, and the policy brief marks links as unknown. Share links only when they genuinely help a house flipping discussion, and never as a pattern of repeated drops.
Can I post AI generated content?
The policy brief marks AI content as unknown and there are no published rules on it. If you use AI help, be honest about it and make sure the post still reads as a real contribution to a flipping discussion.
What happens if I break a rule?
There are no published rules with listed consequences, so removal or bans are not spelled out. The moderator one-liner only asks for relevance and no spam, so staying inside those two lines is the way to stay safe.
Is this community good for a first post about my business?
Not as an opener. With no published rules, the community runs on good faith, so build a track record of helpful flipping comments first and let any business mention come later and rarely.
Subreddits like r/HouseFlipping
Other rooms for the same crowd.