New investor here, looking to get started on flips and value add projects in the Denver area.After spending many hours buried in property records searches and financial spreadsheets, I've determined the best way to move forward is to enlist an agent who caters specifically to buyers looking to capture value from rehabbing run down and distressed properties. 

I’m a handyman and I work with a few rental properties and do some projects that range to the small stuff like hanging doors, repair trim and drywall to new flooring installs, painting, appliance repair, yard work and repairing your usual leaky faucet..The issue I’m having currently is I have just gotten into contact a couple days ago about a flooring job.

In circumstance that it makes your project very tight or uneconomical put in the contingency. 

After 32 years in Electrical construction and project management I have decided to retire.

Hello,I just bought through my LLC  a single family residence in Bucks County, Pa. which we are going to rehab. and flip.I always GC my  projects and use sub. contractors.

Contractors are usually hard to find especially if the investor doesn't have a steady flow of projects for them to work on, this should be a great help for them. 

I'd recommend you get a free cost/benefit analysis quote from a cost segregation study and then discuss this with your CPA. 

I'm a relative newbie and went through this and found it helpful to first understand what each metric is designed to measure in the first place before deciding which one is needed for my analysis.

It makes a lot of sense to have those reserves be set on a dollar amount, rather than a percentage which might be overkill and skew the analysis.

Here's a quick thought analysis with estimates: If cash is preferred and you have 30% of $2M ($600K), you can buy 10 units at $60K cash each and make $96K annum if they are at $800 monthly.