Our Story

From Zero Experience to 250+ Homes

We didn’t grow up in real estate. We didn’t inherit a construction company. And we definitely didn’t have investors handing us money.

What we had was a 9-5 job, a hunger for something more, and the willingness to bet on ourselves. Ruben is the builder. Arthur is the developer. Two brothers who started exactly where you are right now, watching other people build wealth while we traded our hours for a paycheck, wondering if there was a way out of the grind that didn’t mean gambling everything.

So we took the leap. We found our first lot, figured out the permits, and learned financing the hard way, building our first home while still clocking in every day. We got the numbers wrong before we got them right. We ate the mistakes, wrote down what worked, and turned it into a process we could run again. It was not easy. We risked our savings, our time, and our family’s future. But we never looked back.

That first house became a second, then a subdivision, then deals in states we had never set foot in. Working out of our office in Washington, we grew it into $84M+ developed and sold, 250+ doors built, and 1,000+ residential lots, with projects in 17 states. Not with a family name or a war chest, but with a repeatable system and a lot of reps.

Along the way people kept asking the same question: how did you actually do it? So we started documenting every build, foundation to finish, and teaching the exact steps we use. Today that community is 26,000+ people strong, and members are closing their own builds with six figures of equity. This page is the short version. The channels below are the long one.

Four Years Later

The numbers don't lie.

That first home turned into an 8-figure portfolio, built and sold from our office in Washington while securing deals across 17 states.

250+

Doors Built

$84M+

Developed & Sold

1,000+

Residential Lots

17

States With Deals

Why We Teach

Seven steps. That's the whole system.

The process we stumbled through, the mistakes, the lessons, and the systems we built from scratch, simplified into a repeatable step-by-step path.

  1. 01Find the Land
  2. 02Underwrite the Deal
  3. 03Design the Plan
  4. 04Get the Permits
  5. 05Secure the Financing
  6. 06Build the Home
  7. 07Sell It

Our mission is simple: teach you the high-income skill of building a home, so you can create wealth from the ground up, for yourself and for generations to come. No experience needed. No quitting your job. Just a proven system and two guys who’ve walked every step of the road before you.

Ruben & Arthur Ryapolov

Founders, BuildUp

We’ve watched members build their first homes with six figures of equity, and 9-5 employees earn six figures in their first year. And we’re just getting started. Your first home is waiting. Let’s build it together.

More On The Brothers

How it started, in their own words.

Arthur and Ruben sat down with UpFlip to break down the whole journey: the first deal, the mistakes, and how a 9-5 side project turned into an 8-figure development company.

Behind the Scenes

Our journey in pictures

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