BNI has been a big help in my other business and BNI is heavily saturated with real estate professionals and other related fields (commercial lenders to landscaping to roofers, etc.)  

Replacing all light fixtures, faucets, doors, door knobs, ceiling fans, every inch of wall was repainted, all moulding from brown to white, new laminate flooring through the whole first floor and vinyl in the bathrooms, repainted the deck, and really landscaped outside, as well as a brand new porch.

If as part of your flip you're doing a lot of landscaping or hardscaping, it may be worthwhile as 'insurance'.

I know the city extremely well, as I've grew up here, so my only addition is knowing competitive advantages of the landscape, i.e. incoming Silicon Beach tech scene, gentrifying hip neighborhoods, etc.

There is probably a component of landscaping that was done incorrectly around the garage creating a flooding scenario.

The property is in good condition, it just needs some landscaping work.

If you do want to save money on labor, the jobs that you will be able to do yourself are demolition and landscaping.

A question that I have is why are you paying the utilities and landscaping?

He said that I could get about $30,000 of the rehab costs through a program like ygreen.com, basically if you upgrade Windows, roof, drought tolerant landscaping, and other energy efficient items, you are able to get a loan that is attached to the property taxes for the property.

Hoping new landscape, paint and other misc stuff is all I need.