You will have to pay a premium for labor, materials, & skill set of the contractor you are working with.

Judges don't usually approve payments for landlords personal labor, only materials.

I know of no way individuals in a syndication can take their portions and separately 1031.The TIC was mentioned as that creates separate owners of property A, but they are then material participants in the business not limited partners. 

Some will reimburse if you simply buy materials and others want to see specific work completed.That’s a big difference.

@Seth Golie @Cody Sperber  BP nation has a pretty negative sentiment on virtually anything that is paid training. this tends to be a DIY site.. and of course they have their own materials they sell which I have never bought or looked at personally.I do believe though you could shop E bay and buy virtually every providers of these types of services used from folks looking to resell them.. there is not really much that is new in RE .. for some one with zero experience there is defiantly a learning curve but most of the SYSTEMS are interchangeable and will hit on the same topics..

Or cost of material? 

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I think forming LLCs for real estate is largely a hot topic among newbies and small investors because it sounds exciting and people will pay to attend the "guru's" conference or buy their "how to" materials, not because they add materially to your liability protection or your investing portfolio.

Sellers of REOs normally claim no prior knowledge and many do have no material knowledge of the properties condition.Some REOs I have purchase were very clean and easy to inspect so things went quickly.

@Don Johnson I'd stop by your local home depot and start looking at the prices for materials.