Language barrier was worst in Alabama - have had to point to the menu board and hold up fingers for the item number to order a cheeseburger in McDonalds there! 

Maybe we start calling them food ordering advisors...or menu consultants.  

Account Closed you can sort topics by trending by selecting it from the “Sort by Newest” drop-down menu.

Alex -That's like walking into a Chinese restaurant, looking at the menu, and saying, "Hamburgers don't exist!"

Think of it as a restaurant that lists every meal on the menu as "market price". 

@John O'Sullivan Here's the menu:1.

valid only for purchases made on the dollar menu at McDonalds.

- was one I found here.If you go to the education menu above and click "Blog Topics" then select financing, you'll find several great podcasts.

This link has a pull down menu that will list all the Public & Indian Housing Agencies by state. http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?

.#3 Contact Local Contractors for Labor Pricing / Hire a GC to ConsultCall local Subcontractors and get budget pricing for common repairs on your typical rehab project.For example, call a roofer and ask what their average cost per Square of Architectural Asphalt Shingle Roofing would be on a 1,500 sf house, with a 6/12 pitch.Note: Some contractors will be reluctant to share pricing without seeing the property, but tell them you are just looking for a rough budget number you can use on future projects.You can also pay a General Contractor a consulting fee of a couple of hundred dollars (per house) to walkthrough a few properties with you and provide a detailed estimate of prices that you can use as your 'menu for future projects.#4 Compile Your Prices into a Spreadsheet or Estimating SoftwareOnce you start to get a better understanding of Labor and Material costs you will want to store this data into a spreadsheet or software that you can use to help you streamline the estimating process.The Book on Estimating Rehab Costs comes with a spreadsheet that you can use to help you populate your own database of labor pricing and material pricing.