Cost segregation can be a complicated topic, but I tried to break it down and make it easy to understand!

**As investors, you are closest to the consumer (home buyers/renters), so you tend to absorb costs and reduced profits from unexpected spikes in expenses that wholesalers or contractors pass on to you!

You should split the costs - labor and materials together.

How much do you pay a bird dog for finding you property leads?

In a previous post, I discussed the difference in each of the most common cost segregation study approaches.

I think mine cost 1800 for a 400,000 LOC, but I'm a noob and may have got a bad deal.

Low cost, possibly yes, but also possibly very time consuming and that has a cost.  

Hello All,We own a piece of commercial land and plan to build a medical/retail building approx 6000 sq ft. for lease.After the land is graded and all utilities in place including the storm water management, what could be the  approximate cost to build a vanilla shell (dry wall + hvac included) for a modern medical/retail building like this one.Also who can provide funding for this, land is paid off.

They use leverage in some of their funds, which can increase returns, especially if they have a low cost of capital (but potentially increase risk and trigger UBIT issues).

Every flipper has found themselves at Lowe's for the fourth time in a single day, picking up yet another piece of material for a project.