The member posted the text of the letter and expressed enormous frustration that this might be standard protocol.  

So they normally spend less than five minutes per house doing a take off and can make enormous errors. 

@Kenny Kuramoto check out some of the blogs on here too and the enormous amount of free educational content.

I'm looking at a circa 1900, enormous original brick triplex (7000 sq. ft.) --  REO property, on deadline to finalize my offer in 48 hours (multiple bid, best and highest situation) and don't have a structural engineer I've deal with. 

Yes, there are some bad apples (gurus) out there, and you should not have to mortgage your house to get into their programs, but there are some good coaches that do not charge enormous fees.There have been many people that have scraped up enough money to pay an earnest fee on a property only to discover they did not calculate the numbers relating to the project correctly and they lost their money, or worst yet continued in the deal and lost even more money.When analyzing a project, there are many factors to consider.

You will not find a "good deal" in MF in Charlotte without enormous luck.

Learning anything as complex as real estate takes an enormous amount of time and effort and active participation.

They host an enormous meetup down there.

These local sites are enormously popular. 

There is an enormous demand for flexible housing.