“You need to have a vision and to be brave in your choices,” says Deborah. The couple revamp each house to reflect how they’d want to live in the space. The proceeds from each sale are helping the savvy couple towards their goal of becoming mortgage-free, and to build their pension pots.

Their latest project, a three-bedroomed 1930s semi-detached property sold in a day, earning the husband and wife team a £45k profit on the back of a £50k total investment. 'However, when the walls come down and there’s rubble everywhere, I can start to wonder how we’ll see it through. 'Many of the projects we take on need a top-to-toe refurb, but I like a challenge. We turn them back into homes again,” she told money-saving community .uk. 'We tend to choose houses that have been lived in for years and never been touched.