Analyzing the amount of rehab that needs to be done

[Daniel Root]

For those of you who buy and fix/rehab properties, do you have recommendations on estimating figures for what repairs may need to be done (books/articles/hands-on teaching)? I would like to avoid the expense of having an inspector come inspect every property I may buy in the future. It seems that bringing a general contractor along would be helpful but I don't know how readily available or expensive that is to do walk throughs especially as a new real estate investor with no real connections. I am looking for more of a process rather than a one time scenario.

This would mainly be targeted towards single or small multi-family properties for the purpose of light rehab and then to hold for rent.

Thanks for any thoughts or suggestions!

Please forgive me if this is a repeat post of something in the past but I was unable to find what I was looking for using the search function.