.#4 Compile Your Prices into a Spreadsheet or Estimating SoftwareOnce you start to get a better understanding of Labor and Material costs you will want to store this data into a spreadsheet or software that you can use to help you streamline the estimating process.The Book on Estimating Rehab Costs comes with a spreadsheet that you can use to help you populate your own database of labor pricing and material pricing.

I would either keep great records in excel or get an accounting software packaging that can compile reports that will be easy for your CPA to use.

Excited to see all the ideas you compile!!!

I would reach out to the BP community or your agent and compile a list of 3-4 contractors for the rehab.

Came across this pretty neat visualization of home price trends over the last 20 years for major US markets (compiled by Avison Young, using Zillow data).https://www.visualcapitalist.c...TL/DR: West coast cities lead the pack on total appreciation, and are driving US average home price trend overall.

Why is this that price etc etc. compile a price per area per task along with Age of property and condition.

Even if there was, I'm not sure that I'd trust it given the way mass data is compiled. 

I compiled a list of few, but would appreciate if you could add more to my list, so we can enhance our tool and help you solve these issues.

All in, it took me an hour to compile all the documents and talk on the phone with the lender.

I've compiled a list (with info pulled from listsource.com) of the top 5 states, counties, cities, and zip codes for single family and multi family homes bought by absentee owners (assuming these are investors) in the last 6 months.