Direct labor and materials for $3,500, what about, dump fees, indirect labor costs like the time spent on the estimate, material ordering, travel to/from the job, equipment cost, overhead, profit ect.

If I may ask over the next few months My girlfriend and I will be traveling to AZ looking for property as a potential retirement in 10 to 15 years.

I know that perceived fairness especially in this small town is important because word travels fast.

I plan to make a trip out there in the next couple of months once it’s a bit safer to travel due to the virus.

I plan to make a trip out there in the next couple of months once it’s a bit safer to travel due to the virus.

There are so many different niches in REI it is very easy to get distracted,  interested in everything, overwhelmed and then you will just be spinning your wheels and traveling nowhere.

The house is not "designed" as an up/down duplex so a fair bit of noise (music, walking, running, voices) can travel between floors, as well as smells with the shared ducting for the house. 

More things can go wrong when you're 1000 miles away and it is much more expensive to travel back to see your property and ensure your property manager is doing what he/she is supposed to be doing.

The plan is to buy and hold while living in it and potentially renting out the spare room to traveling medical professionals intermittently. 

I had not done much inspecting this year due to travel and the pandemic, but when I did right after their last cleaning, I was shocked at how badly it was cleaned.