Many of us including myself talk about our strategies, styles, niches and business model on our website.

Many of us including myself talk about our strategies, styles, niches and business model on our website.

The were essentially ikea style flat packed buildings.

Many of us including myself talk about our strategies, styles, niches and business model on our website.

KarenI love to read your post, you have a great writing style.  

I'm sure there are plenty of investors who will argue with my investment style and say that the returns are far better in some of the more mediocre areas. 

Many of us including myself talk about our strategies, styles, niches and business model on our website.

By that time, you can get a reasonable feel for the condition just based on the location, age of house, style of house, etc.The key is, you don't want to throw out an offer sight-unseen unless you're about 90% confident that the number won't change once you do see it...

Take two different 3/2 houses in different areas, different styles, different ages, different finishes, different contractors, different SOW, etc, and the rehab estimate could differ by several hundred percent.There are several spreadsheets in the BP Fileplace that might help, and BP has a book on creating SOWs and estimating rehab costs that comes with worksheets (full disclosure, I'm the author).

Many of us including myself talk about our strategies, styles, niches and business model on our website.