Depending on your area its also possible you can do searches for property types on the online property tax assessor database.

You can use online sources to draft it up for cheap (rocketlawyer, legalzoom, etc).

Check online reviews.

Get 1 or 2 more quotes from reputable GCs, but be fully willing to cut losses and offload the deal if the estimates are still nowhere close.Taking a minor hit is much better than getting stuck in a money pit.

I've also polled several of the people in my network (contractors, flippers, wholesalers, brokers) asking what they are seeing.Below is my updated budget (padded) for Spring/Summer 2021. (1) Note that the 2020 numbers are a padded (I pad everything) high average of budgets pulled from 4 houses I flipped in the PNW in 2019-2020. (2) If the official numbers were below inflation, I used Inflation (Shadowstats.com). (3) The overall increase in price on my breakdown is close to the overall data I've found online, which makes me think I have a decent updated budget for eyeballing deals with. (4) To reiterate, the numbers I started with were unique to my situation in the PNW, so please don't take them as gospel for you!

We don't have tenants fill out applications until they complete an online pre-screen questionnaire.

@Mike Baxter Thanks for reaching out Mike, I have a company I found online who are looking for bird dogs in my area (Bradenton, FL).

I heard people saying I can purchase leads online but where ?

3) Have an experienced, reputable contractor provide input on what it would take to get it right.Is it going to cash flow great as an investment in the meantime??

I tried searching online for "Real Estate Transaction Case Studies", it seems like it either doesn't exist, or they have been SEO'ed to oblivion (i.e the 7th o of Google)Thanks in advance.