And I agree with you someone out of state is going to take a huge risk trying to compete with Turn key guys for inventory and to get the homes rehabbed without running into yet another set of problems IE theft.. vandalism being overcharged.

You do not want to be over-charged and under-served so just ask a lot of questions.

If you bring any investor a garbage deal, they'll put you on the back-burner and ignore anything you have to say.REI is all about networking, and the more your name gets out that your over charging on sub-par properties listed on the MLS, the less people will want to work with you.If your honest, professional, and you genuinely bring a few good deals to someones attention, 99% of the time he'll do business with you again.

HVAC techs love this kind of repair because it's easy for them to switch out the parts, laboriously clean the blower fan in front of you, blame it all on you, and overcharge you to the moon.This is really a very simple deal.

It took a threat to call my lawyer before they "reworked" the numbers so I didn't "owe" anything.I can't say that you're being overcharged, but you should definitely get some quotes.Good luck.

He turned out to be a bad apple that did good work but then grossly overcharged above the agreed upon amount.

Study , study , study ... oh ya .. you better learn how to estimate a rehab project .. you need to know if a contractor is over charging you .. learn about contracts .. and learn about construction codes .. 

So with a fixed price I'm worried that I may be overcharged in some areas and not get discounted when I downgrade items (such as cabinets), or it was calculated into the fixed total and turned out to not be required. 

If you are attempting to make more than 6 to 10%, varies with the type of property, and you're doing nothing more than facilitating a transaction, you'll be in the liar and cheat category, regardless of how you try to justify what you're doing, because facilitating only carries so much as a value, anything above that is overcharging.......period!

I also was not willing to go the route of suing for about $2k worth of overcharges (amongst other general complaints), especially because we were getting ready to list the house and didn't want any liens or other legal things to wrap up.