Mine was $3000 for an 18,000 square foot building in NC.  

They are walking all over you and you need to find a way to put your foot down.Mold is one of the fastest-growing scams wielded by tenants.

I am 18 years old and don't have much money to get my foot in the door..  

The cost per square foot to develop shouldn't change that much from a single family for a duplex... you just have to look at what the cost per square foot is and multiply it by how many square feet you're building. 

We are in the process of renovating a 1,028 square foot condo in the South Loop of Chicago!

Or if you know of any hard money lenders in the Las Vegas area I could utilize to acquire the property and get my foot in the door and then refinance the property with a conventional lender, rip the forced appreciation out from the renovation and repeat the process only next time I'll have capital to use a conventional lender from the beginning.

Account Closed bingo

I think step 1 is to look for great buys and just make an offer once you have your foot in the door with a great deal work on getting necessary contractors otherwise. 

If someone would have given me a little advice on how to do things without charging me an arm and a foot, it would have helped me tremendously. 

Here in California on a 1200 square-foot house it’s almost impossible to have a “good fire” (that’s what we call it) that is less than $100K in damages if it’s a complete gut to the studs, with even minimal structural damage would be over $100k.