Call a salvager in your area, they might take them down for less if there are materials they can resell as part of their profit.

Total costs were about 300 including miscellaneous plumbing fittings and the materials to redo the wall.

Our in-house designer did the kitchen, baths, trim package, colors, fixtures, etc.It's a 1550sqft, 3/2.

They need a finished job (materials and workmanship) that is suitable for the purpose.

When you sell the HOUSE AND LLC as a package, you save the transfer fees.

It also is a pain for move ins and move outs as the old tenant still needs to be tracked and the new tenant needs to take their unit number.I use Sage for the accounting, RediDraft for document creation, and a customized version of SugarCRM to manage the properties, tenants, leases, maintenance... in other words, everything from an operational perspective.As far as cost, I paid to have Sugar setup and customized and other than the monthly hosting costs I just use the guy who set it up on a time and materials basis for any heavy administration.

Taking down payment in non-standard (non-cash) forms, like offering a vacation package (heard this one from Rich W.) or a truck.

Now we do get all our materials at builder discount prices of course.So on your lets say your numbers are higher because your labor is higher.

Our agents write those all the time as a stand alone policy or as a package with home, auto, and umbrella to maximize discounts.

However, it seems it this biz. that a lot of contractors can't even afford the materials cost upfront so we either buy the materials and they get paid for work completed, reimburse them right away when they deliver the materials to site or some will go with them to buy the materials. if anyone has another effective way of doing this would love to know.