REHAB COSTS - MATERIALS & LABOR - ZIP CODE

[Henry M.]

Here's a website I found helpful (Make sure to scroll down link's page to view all):

http://www.homewyse.com/costs/index.html#landscapeOther

[Henry M.]

Originally posted by @Ariel Oclarino:

Thanks!

Play with the numbers. Retrieve some local bids. This will help you narrow which specific areas work for you. Anyone who says it is too much or too low in any given area can say that with any location.

I am currently in Austin, Texas and had to retrieve bids for interior paint (all walls and ceilings - Eggshell - Three bedrooms, stairway @ 2 flights, gym, two bathrooms, closets, etc @ roughly 1,200 square feet and over 300 square feet of new cove base throughout apartment was needed.

I received five random bids ranging from $2,600 to $5,500 - Guess what? We used a crew which has done work for some friends in Austin. They did everything for $1,100 (including material).

My point, would it be wrong to say the average bid in Austin was $4,000..? No.

But with some connections and some grassroots digging, we found a crew who worked and charged at a less expensive price than normal.

The same applied for carpet. Carpet was all comparable and at 900 square feet bids were roughly $4,000 to $6,000... Found another to do lay good quality carpet for under $2,000 (materials included).

You just have to search. The economy has yet to recover and there are good workers (all legal) willing to work at a great price which in turn provides us at a better savings equaling a better profit.

Again, would it be wrong to say the average bid in Austin for carpet was $5,000? No, yet we retrieved a bid for more than half the average bid we initially received.

Fluctuation in pricing any given project probably applies to 90% of the country. Some companies have high overhead and others may not. Some think there work is glazed in gold.

Needless to say, the links are for research and to help gauge where you are on most costs. We are investors and generally, we don't like to spend that much moolah. As for the average consumer... I'm sure most, even though high in price would still proceed forward with work that needs to be done and pay the average bid on any given item.

Investors just dig a little deeper and negotiate a little harder.

Play with the numbers.

Just my two pesos.

Big Henry