I do this with all the major expenses: mechanicals, appliances, roof, finishes, driveway, sewer line, landscaping, etc. 

I have worked with a couple GC's doing everything from ground up, remodels, landscaping, etc.

Once the unit had been treated for roaches and the landscaping and cleaning were done correctly, we had professional photos taken.

With better lighting and landscape to minimize hiding spots.

Third: Submit a counter list of expenses that includes your capex costs and management, as well as professional fees and landscaping costs -- I know you might be managing it, and that self storage has really low capex costs, but don't leave those out.

I called around some landscaping companies near Little village in Chicago and they do not service the area.

In short explanation, once you know specific costs for specific line item tasks, divide the home up into sections (i.e. kitchen, bath, flooring, landscape, roof, HVAC, electrical, plumbing, doors/trims, windows, etc).

Well this is what I do.One, get an expired listing, knock on the door of the home seller, give a free report about lease to own, how lease to own works, why it helps them sell on terms versus for cash, how it helps them save money by not paying a real estate commission or closing costs.Two, follow up with these expired listings, many need to think about it for a month, if you follow up, you will eventually get sales.Three, when presenting to homes with no equity, you want to go through all your choices, so what I do is I present three columns, and basically talk about the cost to sell in the first column with an agent, which include, real estate commissions of 6%, closing costs that 2%, sellers concessions which can be 3 to 6%, vacancy costs which can be 4 to 6 months while an agent tries to sell a vacant house, and the seller still have to pay PITI, and lastly spruce up costs like paint, carpet, landscaping, etc. to compete with all the other $500,000 houses.

I currently own a small landscaping business and I'm looking to start wholesaling in upstate NY....Albany and surrounding areas.

The things that are left to do is to get a new HVAC installed, insulation, sheetrock, painting, flooring, landscaping, outside trim, cabinets, and other small stuffs such as installing a prefabricated bathroom tube and surround.