As a rule of thumb, I avoid carpet, expensive appliances, tile/granite, and anything easily broken. 

She goes on to say that the seller in SC is building a new house, hasn't broken ground yet but were thinking a November close as they have a place to go in the meantime.  

I can go in and make sure that any tenant issues, broken blinds, holes in walls, Drawings on walls, etc are documented and had them fixed.  

They will tell you if the bathroom is broken, but won't tell you the bathroom needs to be updated for a retail sale. 

The Scope Of Work is determined based on what is needed to do to bring the house up the standard used to establish your ARV.All items are broken down based on categories, and priced accordingly. 

If my guys hold the appropriate licenses and the company is registered, no laws are broken here, it's a brokerage operation.

.  ;-)Here are some other BP links that may help...http://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2014/04/21/estimate-rehab-costs/http://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2009/11/5/...http://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2013/03/17/tultimate-guide-house-flipping-costs/Now, as for practical advice, I have a spreadsheet where I have broken a house down into components (see below). 

The Woman approached me a couple of times with this: Supposedly she and her boyfriend have broken up and she's paying the rent every month and he just lives there.

I thought i should replace the tub because i was already going to do the tile (due to many cracks and broken tiles).

They even help me hunt for the broken bags and one guy offered to put some holes in a couple bags of the higher end stuff to get me a deal.