No one has a crystal ball.  

In my experience, most tenants will play ball when they deal with a landlord who acts like a professional and sticks to the policies.

The intent of the post was to get ball park estimates on labor.

If your PM didn't drop the ball and did mail out an estimated disposition, you need to discuss the security deposit return process.

Lastly, I would imagine that with all of the small business ownership involved, there's probably a local bank that already has a UCC filed and is unlikely to play ball with a private lender who's trying to realize their collateral.

I am thinking of a system where my investor-based agent gives me a ball park, and after that I pay contractors to go in and give me itemized bids, what do you think about that?

You really got the ball rolling after that first property! 

It’s 4bd 3.5ba nice neighborhood and planning to cover inground pool and add pickle ball court.

If you don't want to do that and you want to play hard ball with the developer then come up with a price for them to buy it from you; and make it a good high price.

If This were happening in California it would be a whole different ball game.....