MAFS star Chris Robinson reveals $109k start behind 14 property flips

MAFS star Chris Robinson has spent more than a decade renovating properties with his builder father, starting with a $109,000 Lithgow home and taking on about 14 projects. MAFS star Chris Robinson urged buyers to start where they could afford after buying his first home for $109,000 and flipping about 14 properties. But one of those projects almost proved too much for the Married At First Sight groom and his builder father: a former children’s foster home at 445 Bolong Rd, Bolong, with holes in the walls, monitoring equipment and an awkward layout. Robinson inspected the South Coast property alone and sent photos and videos to his father in Queensland, who warned him the project was too much work and told him to stay away.RELATED: Vic renovators face hidden $20k hit‘Entry level’: Muddy Melb staircase for sale at $4m Cheap Vic home spots to turn doom into boom Robinson bought it regardless. “I called him and I said, ‘I’m so sorry, but we’ve got another one’,” Robinson said. “He was just like, excuse my French, ‘Oh, f– k, Chris, we’re done’.” The kitchen at 445 Bolong Rd, Bolong, after Chris Robinson and his builder father took on the former children’s foster home despite warnings th...