Not a bad place to find some great material and to educate yourself!

But talking down to me why I would buy trash makes zero sense to him while insinuating I don't care about value is quite upsetting when I come to bigger pockets for the first time with a real life RE problem... a place where you can get differentiating opinions to grow from, but not be smashed down from an arrogant broker while you are trying to get your feet wet in a game that this website promotes.  

Are you knocking on doors and attempting to speak with the owners, leaving marketing materials at the door, or are you just writing down addresses and sending letters at a later time?  

I always do time and materials with contractors, and pay when work is done.  

A quality BR policy provides replacement cost coverage for materials owned by you and your subcontractors, have no exclusion for theft, vandalism leaking pipes or water damage.

Then start subtracting your cost of materials: $8 each belt (*10) = $80 .75 cents each edger disc= $75. 5 gallons of poly= $200 (if you're buying decent poly). 2 gallons stain = $804 screens $30Buffer, drum, edger rental $350 or moreNow you're fast approaching $800 in materials and rental equipment, plus your 4 days of labor and opportunity cost.

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I think it would look good with a fiber cement shingle or certainteed fake slate in a charcoal grey for the roofing material maintaining the angle of the roof and then doing horizontal siding over the garage roof area.

Even doing all the work yourself it is easy to surpass that in materials especially if you need a roof or anything major. 

HM  self promotion big time on BP open forum