Truly depends on the system and brand, btu and efficiency.

I just got back from Clearwater beach and we drove all around the tampa/clearwater area and I gotta say.....a lot of neighborhoods are run down with closed businesses all over the place.Does anyone have any insight on starting somewhere brand new vs. your hometown area as a brand new investor OR Florida real estate investing in general?

When you are doing a low end rehab..we can get away with using used appliance and not having a washer/dryer...on the flipside...the higher value the rehab the closer the rehab needs to be to a "brand new condition"

I recently purchased a brand new home that was REO.

He gave me his numbers this morning and I had my broker submit offers on the 3 the buyer is interested in at $10K below what he is willing to pay.I would like to do a few flips of my own with brand new people so that I'm not dependent upon the people presently in my business.

It's stuff like this that gives rehabbers a bad name...and pisses me off...So, you're planning to hire an unlicensed contractor who has lied to you about being qualified to the do the work and who has a criminal record to run brand new HVAC and you don't even plan to test it when he's done?

Williams is another popular brand.

When long term tenants move out, sometimes it's like a brand new rehab project that can easily consume a hundred hours.

Most of the private funding threads are started by brand new investors, provide far too little information, often have bogus numbers, and the posters are unwilling or unable to answer the questions potential "investors" may have.

If you want greatest discounting you can negotiate locially, get distributor licensing from manufacturers (I am a licensed dist. for many top brands, there for I am the supply yard in essence) purchase manufacturer direct from over seas, or hire someone who has these capabilaties.