Licensed PM company with workers comp and general liability should do it for somewhere in the ball park of $50 for the first hour and $45 for each additional hour plus cost of materials. $175 to $200 labor not out of question. 

Less hassle than dealing with multiple colors, less materials to keep on site, less issues overall.

The principal differences being:the electric baseboards (EBB) are install and controlled on a room-by-room basis; andEBBs rely on convection to permeate heat into the room (there is no fan circulating the air)In theory EBBs should have similar operating costs to a centralized electric forced air furnace (if not lower), however, in practice, that is usually not the case.Because of their reliance on convection, EBBs have slow recovery - i.e. if there has been a draft (someone opening an external door or window) or if the heat has been set back during the day and was turned up on the occupants return.  

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A very basic quick calculation I use is 7.5 bricks per sq ft, and then about $1 per brick for material and labor.

Also, keep track of your mileage and the cost of materials, for as you know, those are tax deductible, even though your labor isn't.

Hi Lance,I did two of them on apartments and NNN retail investing on BP.The shows went an hour and I only covered about 10% of material due to time constraints.What specific questions did you have and I will try to answer.

I would say minimal work is more like 1-5/sqft depending how frugal you are with labor and materials and assuming you're just patching some drywall, paint spraying the house and replacing the floors.

I have heard that some flippers can do bathrooms, etc, very inexpensively, and I guess I don't know where to find the reasonable contractors or materials.  

In exchange you would do manual labor task, pick-up materials, do office work, pass out flyers, etc.