You can form a relationship with a local bank that does commercial lending or you can work with a larger commercial lender but at the end of the day it's going to be your reputation, your experience, your personal financial strength and the financials of the property that you are acquiring that the bank wants to know about.

Reputation and credibility are everything.

As a result, I have always done my best to put the company’s best foot forward, conduct ourselves in a professional manner, and maintain a solid, respectable reputation.

If the place gets a bad reputation, it may be difficult to rent out and or sell.

Not an specific engineer or company, but Baird Foundation Repair has a good reputation in the area of San Antonio.   

This is a practice by some less than reputable companies.

Business reputation is so important and difficult to recover after you have a bad reputation.

Labor and materials are definitely expensive at the moment and the key is to find a reputable contractor.

Make sure the install company registers it or go on line to the manufacture's web site and register it yourself.

And that 25k rehab is an estimate from someone with no contracting experience or a fly by night "contractor" with no license or reputation.