She usually requires extensive research and analysis before making simple decisions because she doesn't want to be wrong. 

It may be a good thing to charge back to the tenants or to split the utilities, but that should not affect your analysis

Fellow VA Investors, This guy was waiting for us in the back yard of a rehab project we just bought.

He is always willing to provide insight on the project and give ideas to make things easier/better.

That said, simple rehab projects if done full time and correctly should expect to have about a week per $10,000 of budget plus an additional week or 2 for clean up, market ready items, misc.

From an investor's perspective it is a lot better to invest in a project rather than in a fund (AKA blind pool).

I'm doing my due dilligence while I roughly scout for properties on zillow/trulia for practice analysis and learning about the specific market demographics.

I'm looking for $25K - $35K in funds for the rehab portion of my next flip that I'm paying cash for the home. Any idea where I can find qualified private lenders for this? I've tried on myhousedeals and getting the ru...

Rehab projects rarely come in on budget.

Have you done any analysis you could post?