The Detailed Engineering Cost Estimate Approach is typically used for the purchase of used property.SURVEY OR LETTER APPROACHOnce a site inspection has been completed and all components of a property have been determined, your specialist will send a survey or letter to the contractors or subcontractors to request they provide the cost of each of the items.

Just survey them and see what you like, they pretty much do the same things.I use a smartthings hub, with RBOYs rental lock automator software with kwikset locks, which is a pay for one time thing, and then that lets you automate your door lock codes.  

The sellers "made the buyers whole" by reimbursing them for appraisals, survey, etc., and got off the hook.

I added value by taking a raw lot and getting it surveyed, septic approval, and the builder in place ready to build a turn-key STR.

However, obtaining owners title insurance after acquisition requires another full title search (so you are paying for this work twice) as well as survey (either new or updated) and the request of course raises red flags for the title agent.

Hi BP,Can you help me out and take this quick, anonymous survey.

Hi BP,Can you help me out and take this quick, anonymous survey.

Looking for help collecting and evaluating bids for septic design, survey work/site planning, build, etc.

My first spreadsheet is condensed information form my mortgage broker and lists on the Y axis (vertical): mortgage terms, rate, APR, fixed term, years, credit score, loan amount, sales price, percent down, down payment, FHAfunding fee, Total Loan Amount, Estimated Monthly Payment, Principle & Interest, Homeowners Insurance (Flood + Home), Property Taxes (1.23% home price in my county), Mortgage Insurance, HOA Dues, origination fee, appraisal fee, tax service, flood certification, credit report, attorney's fee, title insurance-lenders, title insurance-owners, recording fee, verification of employment, survey, home inspection, water/septic if well, pest, 1st year homeowner's insurance premium, homeowner's insurance escrow, property tax escrow, per diem interest, down payment, closing costs, prepaid expensesOn the X axis (horizontal) I have the numbers for 200k, 250k, 300k, 350k, 400k broken down into whether it's single family or multifamily, then FHA or conventional2.)

But, a survey they quoted showed that something like 93% of economists agreed that rent control limits housing development and in the long-run makes housing affordability worse, not better.