Rob & Melissa Stephenson from Flea Market Flipper talk about starting their six-week road trip and taking a short break from the podcast.
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Reseller Hangout Podcast – Rob & Melissa On The Road Trip
Rob: What's up guys, on today's episode, we are coming to you from our family road trip.
Melissa: We are on the road for the next six weeks and picking stuff up across the country.
Rob: So today guys, we are in a hotel room somewhere in?
Melissa: Missouri.
Rob: Missouri. We have been on the road for three days and, excited to be on the road with our kids, traveling the country and looking for some cool stuff to, find to resell.
Melissa: So, this is our third year in a row going, kind of cross country road trip picking and finding stuff to sell while also, you know, seeing the sites and going to national parks. And, it's a lot of fun. So we get to buy some stuff, make some money from the road and then get to explore, God's creation.
Rob: Yeah, it's cool. One of the reasons why we flip that we enjoy our flipping career business is it allows us to have time for family.
So that's one of the reasons why we started doing this a couple of years back and just taking some time off over the summer to spend with the kids and see the outdoors and yeah, spend time as a family, plus being able to find cool things around the country that we can take back and we can sell and yeah, it's a blast.
So we have a lot of fun doing that.
Melissa: Yeah. And it stemmed really from the starting with the 127 yard sale. We started going across or just, it's 690 miles of yard sale from Alabama to Michigan. It's four days long. We grabbed our truck and trailer. I think we did it three years. And, the kids were really young the first year we did it and it was a lot of fun just seeing what you can find to flip and yeah, and going for a week flipping or picking trek and it was a lot of fun. So then now we're going in a little bit broader, a little bit longer. So we're on the road for six weeks this time.
Rob: Six weeks around the country. And to see what we can find, we found our first item today. Jenn air 45 inch cooktop, picked it up for $65 and it should sell for $2,000.
So we got that in the trailer today and found a couple other items, trying to negotiate them right now. We'll see what we can do. But the whole purpose of this podcast was that we'll let you guys know that we are going to be taking the next six weeks off from the podcast. So we're going to miss you guys.
But we want to spend time as a family and be able to enjoy the great outdoors and just, yeah. Have some time together and do it, and then we will be back in six weeks, with some cool new episodes and probably some stories about our adventures.
Melissa: And what we found across the country. Last year, we found $17,000 worth of inventory in 14 items. So, and all over the country. And that's one thing that you love to do is go to different areas. And, it's fun because there's some areas that are more popular and then there's some areas that are out in the middle of nowhere and you have to meet with people and you get some great deals.
So on both. So it's fine. It's just looking in the areas right before we go. And then you send out a couple offers and see what sticks, what doesn't stick. And we ended up with a full trailer on the way home. So got our first item today and we'll see how the rest of the trip ends up. But yeah, we're excited about it.
We're excited to get the kids seeing new things and hopefully visit a couple new parks across the country. And, yeah.
Rob: Absolutely. So we appreciate you guys so much hope you guys have a great day.
Melissa: And if you do want to follow along the adventure, we won't be putting out podcasts for the next six weeks, but definitely follow our Instagram because we will be posting stories.
We will be posting what we're finding across the country. It's just a little bit quicker and easier to just upload those, as we're doing it as we're finding stuff. So our Instagram is @Fleamrktflipper. Yeah, that's our handle. So you can find us on Instagram and we're there.
Rob: Yep. We'll put a link in the show notes, so you guys can go check it out there if you want to follow the journey.
And then we definitely will be back in six weeks to give you guys some more stories, some cool finds that we're able to find from the road all over the U.S.
Melissa: And we do really enjoy doing the podcast. I wasn't even sure. I really didn't know if I would like doing a podcast before we started this, but it has been a lot of fun.
And so we definitely will pick it back up in six weeks, but we also want to spend a lot of time with our family and know that our kids are really little for so long. So we want to spend time with them.
Rob: That's right. You guys have a great day and we will talk to you soon.
Melissa: All right, guys, thank you.