Chris Safferis

Real Estate Investor · 1 appearance on the record.

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Chris Zaferes is a chiropractor turned real estate investor. He is known for turning a modest down payment on a Venice Beach home into significant wealth by timing neighborhood opportunities.

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Safferis: Venice Beach home sold for $980K in one day

“And I go, if I can get nine 80, I'm leaving. And he goes, you're getting more than 30% what anyone else has ever got in your, in this area. And I go, well, that's what it's going to take for me to leave. And I sold it in a day.”

Chris Safferis Oct 21, 2025 ▶ 29:47 The $7K Venice Beach Deal That Made This Chiropractor a Millionaire

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Disclosure

Chris Safferis pays tradesmen full asking rates for demanding craft standards

“No, in fact, I give them exactly what they want to because I'm demanding. I like it to turn out the way I want it to turn out, and they're already, I'm paying them exactly what they want, and they still kind of Don't want to stick around sometimes because I'm …”

Chris Safferis Oct 21, 2025 ▶ 1:02:19 The $7K Venice Beach Deal That Made This Chiropractor a Millionaire

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Safferis: Bought Venice Beach house using $7,000 FHA loan

“I had like 7000 dollars from my father's... It was nothing, you know, and I took all that money and did a FHA loan. I bought the house.”

Chris Safferis Oct 21, 2025 ▶ 3:08 The $7K Venice Beach Deal That Made This Chiropractor a Millionaire

Assertion Partly supported

Safferis: Venice Beach homes were $150K in 1994

“All day long now, but back then you could get them for a 150.”

Chris Safferis Oct 21, 2025 ▶ 4:12 The $7K Venice Beach Deal That Made This Chiropractor a Millionaire

Assertion Contradicted

Safferis: Venice Beach home sold for $980K in one day

Chris Safferis Oct 21, 2025 ▶ 29:47 The $7K Venice Beach Deal That Made This Chiropractor a Millionaire

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Safferis: Live-in home renovations built more wealth than chiropractic career

“Every single time, Except for Joshua Tree, I have lived in the house that I am working on, and I don't know if that's a good thing, you know way better than me, but it has grown my wealth way more than chiropractic”

Chris Safferis Oct 21, 2025 ▶ 1:04:26 The $7K Venice Beach Deal That Made This Chiropractor a Millionaire

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Safferis: Venice Beach home build cost under $100,000 using DIY labor

“I remember I told the building department I was going to build the whole house for under a 100,000, because they wanted to tax me all this, and I'm like, and they laughed at me, and I'm like, you can't laugh at me. I could, that's, I can do, I'm building this …”

Chris Safferis Oct 21, 2025 ▶ 21:28 The $7K Venice Beach Deal That Made This Chiropractor a Millionaire

Disclosure

Chris Safferis hand-scrapes floors and remills reclaimed wood for his renovations

“Hardwood floors, I hand scrape them. I will drive to the end of the world to find something interesting that no one else has. I'll do used floors, and I'll remill them all, and I can't afford to do it, so I just do it myself.”

Chris Safferis Oct 21, 2025 ▶ 30:35 The $7K Venice Beach Deal That Made This Chiropractor a Millionaire

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Safferis: Venice property offered for $1.1M recently sold for $12M

“I know the one in Venice is sold, he could have got it for 1,100,000, and he, Just now has sold for twelve million dollars. And you know, that's within the last 20 something years.”

Chris Safferis Oct 21, 2025 ▶ 44:04 The $7K Venice Beach Deal That Made This Chiropractor a Millionaire

Disclosure

Safferis: Topanga Canyon home generated over 3x return in 15 years

“I've done three times, maybe a little better, in 15 years.”

Chris Safferis Oct 21, 2025 ▶ 47:40 The $7K Venice Beach Deal That Made This Chiropractor a Millionaire

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Prediction Not checkable as stated

Morris: Safferis will get 30% more per square foot for Topanga house

“At the end of the day, you are going to get 30% more per square foot when you sell that house.”

Paul Mark Morris Oct 21, 2025 ▶ 1:05:57 The $7K Venice Beach Deal That Made This Chiropractor a Millionaire

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
The $7K Venice Beach Deal That Made This Chiropractor a Millionaire	Oct 21, 2025	32m

Chris Safferis

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