popcorn/stop finish scraping -- how much to spend?

[Sean Kelly]

Just bought a 3/2 rental I'm updating. It has STOMP/STRIPPLE ceiling texture

Anyone have any experience hiring someone to do this? I tried on my own and it was easy enough but I wanted to kill myself after an hour.

How "professional" do I need to have a scrape job done? 

I feel like its fairly simple--spray the ceiling w/ some water and scrape down the texture. then skim where you need to and paint it flatI ask bc I've gotten 4 quotes:

-$500 to scrape and skim if needed

-$400 to scrape and up to $300 to finish/skim

-$1750 to scrape and skim 2 coates

-$1375 to scrape and skim 

Such a huge gap. is there enough to mess up here that i'd need to pay over $700 for 865' of ceiling to scrape and skim?