Getting Repair Estimates

[Shana Miller]

Hello, I am a licensed real estate agent, I am fairly new to the business and I am trying to get into the investor side of things. The problem that I am coming across the most is advising repair estimates. I am not a contractor, I don't aspire to be and I don't always want to have to call one when I have a question about the cost of different things. Is there a better way to learn this? An app, handbook, website or anything?! I know this is something that you may learn as you go, but I am just hoping there is some kind of shortcuts. Any help or advice is appreciated.

[Dustin Meyer]

the best place I've found for pricing estimates like this is diyornot.com. they break down the material costs and labor by your zip code and provide you with step by step instructions for how to diy a project if you choose to. it doesn't sound like you are interested in that but the costs they provide with labor are pretty close to quotes I've gotten from contractors in the past. the prices are updated fairly regularly too. it's a great place to start to learn costs for a project until you get good enough to estimate them on your own.