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If you are just basing your analysis off of numbers, you'll be drawn to the Midwest.

Based on the purchase price and loan circumstances, your lender or real estate agent can tell you an estimate of these expenses.Rehab Costs: To determine the price of the duplex's required repairs and renovations, get quotations from builders or property inspectors.

There is no such thing as a "standard fee," however each agent has a fee that they typically use based on how they want to get paid.

A simple LLC should work fine for your purposes (based on your post, I'm not aware of your situation entirely)

Our internal team is there to help you review rehab bids, inspection reports, analyze different exit strategies based on your updated numbers throughout the project, and help you work with different lenders and insurance agents that we refer you to.

I played football so I wasn't able to get into it., But I knew Gene and his wife from church from kindergarten until he died.

Nothing the lender can do to trigger a due on sale clause based on a divorce decree.

Now, apparently after some improvements, the building with the parking garage has been deemed structurally sound and safe to occupy (based on an engineering report and formal subsequent notice from the HOA). 

I also would charge less if that's all that's going on, but there may be other factors at play which is causing the fee to increase as well, I'm also a single member firm owner in LCOL midwest, so that plays into things as well.