Your materials are fixed, and a painter might be $125 a day, and a floor guy might be $150 a day.

North Highland Park has plenty of big American Foursquares that make for good flip material and so the competition is hotter for those properties there and drives up market value on the smaller ones to a certain extent.

I bought  materials 22.66 Square worth of shingles (22 regular and 0.66 ridge cap) and he billed me for 24.66 square ( I had to buy some more shingles before he finished so he wouldn't run out). 

Boosting a post just gets additional views and is best for sharing an article, information, or promoting a contest/giveaway. 

I have some developer friends that have been doing it for 40 years and they are doing projects with after build values in the 9 figures plus.Developer gets paid most on the back end with the promote.

I wonder if these are independent reps marking up the cost of the material??

The pluming is roughly in as well as loads of building materials.

I also don't really want to pay $3K (I saw one such course) for educational materials that may simply be available for free or may not even be that valuable. 

No down is often promoted but those deals are not common.

If they did not break out labor and materials - then your only option is to issue a 1099 for the total amount.