I worked alongside professionals as a "helper" With pretty much no construction experience, they put me on the dirty grunt work, cleaning rat poop, removing the old toilets, scrubbing down baseboards, etc. but as I was doing that, I was watching every single thing they did, and pestered them with tons of questions on how to do things and different techniques.

I don’t know the rules, but after much consideration we gave our contractor the go-ahead to do it on a remodel of our two story primary residence in Sherman Oaks back in 2004.

We own a few rental properties but our main focus is on residential remodel and sell (flip).

We'll do some light remodeling to force appreciation, rent it out and refinance..This will have to be repeated many times over the next year or two. 

Joseph, MO and it is in need of two bathroom and kitchen remodels.

Even when they overflowed the toilet

I would have a contractor walk it, and give you a bid for a complete to studs remodel, and add 10%.

In this case, a buyer looking for a home of a certain type, style, remodeled state, location, etc...- With your Youtube/Vimeo title use the property type and address in the title (i.e.

Ray,I'm assuming that you will be remodeling an existing building. 

So for this analysis assume the foundation is ok.I've remodeled my own home and am used to California prices, but the Midwest may be cheaper.