He said he does not charge regular customers more than his regular hourly rate and materials because he has to crawl in that dirt to treat, and he would rather crawl on the plastic!

Guess I should stay off the boards tonight.I'll quit here, but find some better material. 

I would never pay off someones loans and would not consider them as marriage material if they asked, thats a major red flag. 

It happens all too often where people will buy a property together, and one partner says man this isn't what I expected, and the other is pedal to the metal ready to buy every piece of real estate he can get his hands on, and they don't know how to break up their operations or compensate someone who wants out. 

You might try https://www.mfssolutions.com/.I have not used them, but had their info in my contacts, so must have thought they were interesting at some point.Same for bulkwooddesign-cabinetry.com  in Dallas.Might also try Surplus Building Materials in Addison, but not sure they do bulk.There is someone in the multifamily community that also does bulk supplies...trying to think of who that is....they're really an operator, but do enough renovations they started a sideline business. 

Going to be difficult to solve a supply side (labor/oil/materials) problem with a demand side solution. 

The lynch pin that makes the STR loophole work is only needing 500 hours material participation (or 100 hours and more hours than anyone else) instead of full on REPS, as long as your average stay is less than seven days.

To be honest, prices for material and services change constantly and any book will be outdated as soon as it hits the streets.

Its not the material its the labor and insurance. 

Total renovation including all materials (except appliance) was $57,000.