They buy materials in bulk at substantial discounts and are buying big ticket items like hvac systems wholesale, not at big box retail stores.

Older commercial property may be built with higher common sense standards, and better material than what is available today.

These can cost $50-70 each just for the materials, and you wouldn't need to change all that are in the panel, just the ungrounded ones (stove and dryer likely already grounded, others may be grounded as well).The second option: Change the first outlet in a circuit to a GFCI outlet.

It tracks all the jobs we contract out (labor and materials).

If you do it yourself, you can only charge for materials. 

I know the standard procedure is to get your offer accepted and then go about your due diligence, but even after calling around and finding labor/material costs I'm not confident my numbers would be accurate.

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When they do the Kitchen and bath I pay for materials and only pay after that K &B phase is completed.

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