If you were okay with lower quality, I'm sure they have less expensive stuff as well (and they'll overnight you samples for you to choose from).Overall, you shouldn't be paying more than about $1.25 PER SQUARE FOOT for carpet for a rental, including both material and labor.Shoot me a PM for contact info...

Next step would be as you mentioned and apply an epoxy primer such as reziweld by wr meadows and immediately pour the patch material against the epoxy before the epoxy cures.

That price sounds like it's below material cost.

$180 on and off a sq on a material like slate is a fair price.

Having said that, I have very little means to help them and help is what they desperately need.I am asking if there is anyone in the New Orleans area that would be willing to donate time and or materials to help rebuild.

If your flipping it, once it's finished and in line (perhaps of materials and ammenities) with the other homes for sale in the area, your home will probably be between 840,000-1.3m, probably closer to that latter.

Although, I'm already at the point where I've partnered with a GC to do all the work, so all I do is find the deals, pick the materials, and sell the property.

Its existance in the water,if known to the buyer,may be a material fact in deciding to buy or not.FYIFrom what I have read, the risk can, albiet small , extend to warm water bodies,natural and man made,even hot tubs ,even food .

In addition, take a look at some of your favorite songwriters' material and study their lyrics to see how they put them together, their choice of words/imagery/etc.Another cool lyric writing trick I sometimes use when I'm stuck that I learned from Diane Warren (one of the all time most successful songwriters) is to find an existing song you like.

It's good that your figuring out material costs, but don't forget labor cost, unless your doing everything yourself.