@Alicia Arizpe you wont know exactly unless you talk to the homeowner and see where they are or their pain point. 

I once had a tenant who started to become delusional / schizophrenic and started to think I was monitoring him through the Wi-Fi signal.

Most of the pain came in the beginning when I had to obtain experience doing things I wasn't good at, didn't know very well or didn't want to do.

Pain in butt to work with but well worth it.

My suggestion is eat the pain and try to talk to them and get it done what you need to. 

@Gary Garrett You have a long winded question here but I recognize the pain.

The truth is that finding the right contractor is a painful and expensive process.

He told me about how it was a pain having to do it twice.

However, here are a couple of signals that a cost segregation study might be right for you.1.

But here I am, trying to put a really strong offer in on a home and I’m not sure if I should go in with the mindset that it’s a 3b/2ba 1,895 sq ft or a 4b/2ba 2,055 sq ft… Seeing as I’m going to rent this one day, if I myself decide to get it assessed/permitted as square footage (which I don’t know how much of a pain it truly is), I ran some rent estimators online (RentCast.io) and the rental comp differences between those two scenarios is about $2,275/monthly vs. $2,600/monthly, which is huge!