Braden Harman
Real estate investor. Estate sale obsessive. Accidental furniture flipper.
For years, Braden watched other investors fight over the same overpriced listings on the MLS — bidding wars, waived inspections, and deals that barely penciled. There had to be a better way.
The answer was hiding in plain sight: estate sales. Every weekend, across every city in America, the contents of entire lives go up for sale — including the houses themselves. Braden learned to show up early, build relationships with estate sale companies, and buy properties before they ever hit the market.
Over 15 years and 40+ acquisitions, the system got refined into something teachable. Flipping Couches and Buying Houses is that system — written for anyone who's tired of losing on the MLS and ready to find deals where nobody else is looking.
Real estate investor
Active buyer and holder of residential investment properties across multiple markets.
Estate sale specialist
Built relationships with estate sale companies in 3 states — regularly gets first-call access to off-market properties.
Furniture flipper
Turned a side hustle of reselling estate sale furniture into the seed capital for the first real estate deal.
Author & educator
Teaches the estate sale investing system to new and experienced investors through this book and workshops.
It started with a couch.
Braden's first estate sale was an accident. He showed up looking for a vintage lamp and left with a $400 mid-century sofa that sold on Facebook Marketplace for $1,800 three days later.
That margin — 4.5x on a single weekend — was better than anything on the MLS. So the next weekend, it happened again. And the weekend after that.
Six months later, the furniture flipping cash funded the down payment on a duplex bought directly from an estate executor — off-market, below appraisal, with no competing offers.
That's the system. And it works in any market, any city, any weekend.
"A genuinely different approach to finding deals in a crowded market."
"The estate sale investing strategy is one of the most overlooked opportunities in real estate."
"Practical, specific, and surprisingly entertaining."