The rest of the home inspection showed your typical home inspection things, light bulb out, missing shingle, etc. etc.

There's a cost/value trade off for everything and there is no point in paying more than necessary for the appropriate level of quality.This goes for replacement windows, doors, shingles, sheetrock, flooring, paint, electical, and HVAC and the professionals that install them. - well, maybe shingles are different, but my observations seldom exceed 20 years with shingles, so, 20 years is good enough.My experience is that contractors that do not have the capacity to perform well are more than happy to charge more than their skill and performance is worth and the uninformed consumers of those goods and services are willing to pay the charges - no longer by me.As to the price being the same for a rehabber as any other customer, that may be true for you and your business model.

House was built it ‘72 and there’s two layers of shingles on it.

A roof contractor quoted $24,000 for a property that had 2,300 sq ft of living space for asphalt shingles if the property needed a new roof.

We are immediately planning for new shingles and gutters and landscaping/grading around the house.  

Every spring my grandfather shingled a couple of houses. 

I’d like to upgrade from asphalt shingles to a metal roofThanks!

@Nick R. meaning there are 2 layers of shingles on the roof?

HI Shawn,I have several investments in NJ and have replaced the roof on almost all of my properties at least once.Is this a standard pitched shingled roof?

I too am attracted to the shunned, lonely, ugly properties on MLS (& ICX) ... at the moment asbestus asphalt shingles have this darling little triplex sitting ~150 DOM.The word asbestus freaks people out ...