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Brian Ellison Change Property Type Residential to Multi-Family
13 July 2021 | 7 replies
You pay to submit a written plan, architectural drawings or engineering plans, an inspection is done, staff makes recommendations, there is a public hearing where neighbors can dispute.
Dan Passarelli Newbie Question on Estimating Rehab Costs
14 July 2021 | 3 replies
.#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.
Tyler Delaney What college degree is most helpful in real estate investing?
16 July 2021 | 2 replies
There's an actual real estate college degree; and within the MBA program there's a real estate concentration.Subjects that could certainly fuel an investor's rise to empire besides just accounting and business could be architecture (evaluating structures), psychology (negotiation), economics (noticing trends in a market), statistics (various areas of investing), and there are probably more that aren't popping into my head at the moment.
Zoran M. Multifamily Ground-up Development - Diary of a New Build
22 June 2022 | 12 replies
May 2021: LOI submitted / negotiated (14 days totals)July 2021: PSA executed after 40 days of back-and-forth August - December: 3rd party reports, meetings with city, meetings with builder/partner, architectural drawings, pro forma revisions, etc Q1 '22: Lineup debt/equity June'22 - Ground breaking, with construction expected to last 16 months.
Igor Stankevich Charlotte R-4 zoning and codes
19 July 2021 | 5 replies
I found this (http://ww.charmeck.org/plannin...) and it looks like it is not worth it.Basically, i have an architectural drawing with engineer's seal for 2 units already, and it would be great to implement it.
Aaron Ingram Quote Architectural Drawings
28 August 2021 | 17 replies
BP Community,I have a quote for $7500 for architectural drawings on a rehab we are doing.
Davonta Williams Architecture + Real Estate
19 July 2021 | 2 replies
I think having a Architecture degree is a good combination with a real estate license?
Timothy Munger Architect Blueprints Commercial Property, does it raise values?
23 July 2021 | 5 replies
Considering a 10+ unit residential commercial property if one already owns the land, has everything else in order: civil engineering, soil survey, Phase I, and architectural blueprints...if the owner was forced to sell due to lack of financing and or some other reason does having those things necessarily increase the value of the vacant land?
Alex Gallis BC First Time Investor
20 August 2021 | 4 replies
My girlfriend has an architecture diploma as well as an interior design degree so we've been thinking more about having our first property be a flip property that we would live in for a few years and fix up. 
Ben C. Buying Framing Lumber From A Saw Mill?
26 July 2021 | 0 replies
If so can you just give the your architectural plans and they prepare your order right from the prints?