The most professional quote I got back was the 31k but they were way over priced for what I had as a budget and I believe they do mostly homeowner / higher end projects and so they can charge higher end prices.The concept of asking folks to put a bid together for labor and materials for different items seemed to be a foreign concept to some of them while others understood.  

Robert Kiyosaki-Rich Dad, Poor Dad is a mustone of my personal favourites is Donald Trumps "The Art of the deal"

Hi everyone,I am a foreign investor (from Australia) looking at purchasing some properties in Las Vegas next month.

I deal with foreign companies and individuals at our firm.

The downtown/Brickell area is where you see most of the foreign investors buying up property with cash.

I just read an article couple of days back which says that outbound flow of people is more in CA than inbound.This is correct however most articles I have read leave out net foreign migration which puts Cali at a net population gain of 6 figures plus annually. 

Local banks do not like to lend to foreigners that much and want 50% down.Larger loans can be made by non-bank entities who can give 10 year term and 30 year amort. 

For example, in Illinois you can file a Delaware or Nevada LLC, but if you do business in Illinois you must file as a foreign entity registered to do business.

I am a foreign investor, based in South America and travel very often to Detroit to monitor my investments.

For me it was purely a business decision.I am a foreign investor and its been a massive learning curve investing in US.