Renovation games seem to be a staple of the simulation genre. One of the most popular games, House Flipper, has a lot of content that only keeps growing, all set around this singular concept. Take odd jobs to clean and fix people’s houses or buy your own houses from the market, then fix and resell them to make a profit.

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Though some people think House Flipper is just shy of a horror game, it offers many opportunities to kick back and relax as you take the lead and redesign to your heart’s content. As you work, you’ll earn perks along the way, which will help you level up and make renovating easier than it should ever be.

10 Better Equipment - Upgrade Your Hammer For Better Demos

A wall partially demolished, exposing the brick underneath it and the rooms behind it

The demolition perk Better Equipment is useful if you plan to destroy a lot of walls. When you first unlock demolition, the basic hammer will only hit a small area, meaning you’ll have to hit the walls a lot more often before they are fully destroyed.

Getting the final hammer upgrade will give you the biggest hammer in the game, not only meaning you’ll need fewer hits to take out a wall, but you can typically hit more than one at a time.

9 Mason - Build Smarter, Not Harder

A wall is being built in an open space, seemingly beginning to connect the door frame to the wall

The Mason perk is the best one in the building category. Though you might not have to build walls often while out on jobs, it might come in handy when you buy your own houses to renovate, as you can change the floor plan to be whatever you want it to be. The mason perk will let you build pre-painted walls. This helps you save money on paint, especially if the room is already white.

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A fully upgraded mason perk will also give you 50 percent off of the cost of building a wall, making it worth the cost to redo the floor plan in some of the houses you buy. Saving money here will earn you more when you sell it, too.

8 Paint More - Paint Multiple Walls At Once

A room being painted, where the wall to the left is white and fades into the black wall on the right

The Paint More perk will help you out often while you’re painting. The painting in this game might seem like it’s made for a simple ordinary job simulator, but when you have to paint one small section of the wall at a time, it can get rather tedious in large rooms. Each point you put into the paint more perk will give you another wall you can paint, all the way up to four.

When you reach this point, you can hold your mouse down and swipe across the wall, watching as the sections are all painted over together in a large swatch, making the painting go by faster. It’s one you should focus on, as you’ll be painting a lot throughout the game.

7 Handyman Tiler - Make Tiling Less Tedious

Gray bathroom tiles are slowly being put up on the wall

Tiling is one of the worst things to do in the game. You have to buy the pack of tiles, and then you can only hold a certain amount as you place the tiles on one small section of the wall for each tile in your hand. While it’s not too bad in bathrooms, since those are usually smaller anyway, tiling also applies for house siding, so if you want to reside an entire house, it’s sure to take forever.

With the Handyman Tiler perk, you can upgrade your stack to hold up to ten tiles in your hand at a time. For reference, a typical tile pack is 15 tiles. On top of that, it will also increase your speed, so that actually placing the tiles goes by faster too.

6 Higher Payment - Get Paid More

The computer in house flipper, with four mail messages

While a lot of the negotiation perks depend on how you want to play the game, the best one to get early on is the Higher Payment perk. Your email will constantly be full of odd jobs when you start out, and you get paid for each one upon completion. If you upgrade this perk, it gives you up to 50 percent more money per job than it would have without it.

This is especially handy when you start buying and renovating houses to sell. If you find yourself short of cash to fully renovate the new house, you can jump into some of the old jobs again and earn the money you need faster.

5 Fitter - Put In Your Fixtures Faster

The installation of some pipes into the wall

One of the jobs you might end up doing the most often is replacing broken fixtures or putting entirely new ones in. Radiators and outlets tend to be popular replacements in jobs. There are often bathrooms too that you’ll have to put a sink, shower, or toilet into. Sometimes, it can be all three.

Because you’re doing this task so often, it’s worth getting the Fitter perk as it increases the speed at which you can install these fixtures up to a full 100 percent. Check out the settings to make putting fixtures in even easier, and you’ll fly through your installations.

4 Penetrating Vision - Don’t Guess Where The Dirt Is

Boxes, tires, and dirt litter the interior of this garage

The Penetrating Vision cleaning perk helps you find all the hidden dirt stains within a room. As you upgrade this perk, the mini-map will slowly begin to show you more and more of the dirt hiding around the house, making it easy to find what you need to clean.

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Don’t give up on a cleaning job when it’s 90 percent done just because you can’t find the last bit of dirt. Don’t let yourself be tricked by dirt hiding on window sills, tabletop surfaces, and even the ceiling. By the time you can see all the dirt on the mini-map, you’ll be able to complete every job to the full 100 percent.

3 Gardener's Sense - Don’t Make Gardening Hard

a yard in disrepair, with weeds and overgrown grass everywhere

The Garden DLC introduces three new perks to the game as you can now clean and decorate the yards, doing anything from putting new trees and flowers in, to digging out ponds and pools. The most important perk here is the Gardener’s Sense. On your mini-map you’ll be able to see everything you need to clean up out of the yard, making sure you don’t miss anything or have to go searching through the bushes for them.

The first upgrade lets you see all the tall grass on the property that needs to be trimmed. From there, you’ll soon be able to see all the weeds hiding on the property that you need to pull out, and the final upgrade will show you the problematic molehills. If you plan on doing extensive gardening, this perk is a necessity.

2 Long Range - Cleaning Has Never Been Easier

Dirt and wine bottles cover the surfaces of this kitchen

The Long Range cleaning perk will help you out in every job, especially the really dirty ones. Cleaning is one of those management simulator game objectives that will show up everywhere you go. This perk upgrades your mop, giving you more range when cleaning up so that you can clean multiple stains at once. It also upgrades your window cleaning tool, which helps clean windows a lot faster.

One of the biggest benefits of this perk though is that, when fully upgraded, it helps your trash picking. Instead of painstakingly picking up all of those wine bottles and empty soda cans one by one, you can pick up a small group at once with one click. It’s almost necessary for the really messy houses since otherwise, you’d be stuck picking up trash forever.

1 Basic Painting - Stop Wasting Paint

A purple wall gets a darker shade of purple over top of it

One of the most important perks to get is the Basic Painting perk. The first rank will let you stop painting over something that’s already painted. Don’t worry if you’re trying to switch colors, as you can still put a fresh color over the old one, but it won’t let you put the same color on top of itself once the wall is painted. That way, you only spend paint on the walls you need to cover to paint the whole room.

The other two ranks will help you use less paint as well, merely letting your brush waste less and get more painting done before you need to refill it again. Stop spending money on the extra paint cans you need to finish a room and start saving it up for something else.

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