What do you want out of a GC:  Someone who has lots of quality sub connections, someone who doesn't soak you with their fee on top of Sub costs, someone who will be there to oversee manage the quality and speed of your project at least 3x per week and be in constant communication through calls and pictures. 

Wondering if this is about right in terms of cost or whether there are other more affordable companies out there.  

Like a lot of people here are saying, you can just replace the front glass which is a cheaper cost!

Just because you have done it yourself before doesn't mean you necessarily are doing it in the most efficient/cost-effective way.At the end of the day, building wealth through real estate like you are thinking might be the best move, but you shouldn't just drop things that are working now for something potentially better.

You would then use a hard money lender or another private lender to purchase a property, including repair costs.

The other sells services and gives the training away at no cost. 

In locations where you can join the MLS without joining the board, the pricr is usually increased, and not surprisingly the increase cost is roughly the cost of joining the board.

Not all units have it but we got a good deal with our vendor and 1 bug complaint can cost hundreds so our owners were on board as well.

Not familiar with it, but as with most HELOCs, the analysis would come down to the cost of capital vs the ROI you think you can get on spending your home equity.

The cost of housing has exploded.