Book on estimating rehab costs

[Jacob Hrip]

I’d like to begin my real estate investing career in 2025. I’ve recently finished reading J Scott’s “The Book On Flipping Houses” and found it to be extremely helpful in understanding most aspects of a fix and flip project. However, I still struggle to understand the art of estimating rehab costs. 

I was considering reading J Scott’s “The Book On Estimating Rehab Costs” but wasn’t sure if the information remains relevant 6 years later given how pricing has changed since then. 

Is this book worth my time or am I better off going another direction? Are there any other real estate investing books that the forums would consider essential to a first time investor? 

[JD Martin]

Quote from @Jacob Hrip:

I’d like to begin my real estate investing career in 2025. I’ve recently finished reading J Scott’s “The Book On Flipping Houses” and found it to be extremely helpful in understanding most aspects of a fix and flip project. However, I still struggle to understand the art of estimating rehab costs. 

I was considering reading J Scott’s “The Book On Estimating Rehab Costs” but wasn’t sure if the information remains relevant 6 years later given how pricing has changed since then. 

Is this book worth my time or am I better off going another direction? Are there any other real estate investing books that the forums would consider essential to a first time investor? 

 Pricing has changed but J Scott's one of the smartest guys around and is one of the books I always feel comfortable recommending. There's a ton of information in there and what you're really interested in learning is how to come up with prices, not the prices themselves as those will change over time.