If you don't sign, it's likely the agent will bring you less or no deals.

Is there an easy way to divide the basement up?

I hit up a local wine distributor and pickup wine boxes (wooden ones) they give away to anyone who wants them.

For cash-on-cash evaluation of rental properties, it is critical to identify ALL of  your acquisition costs. 

Another guy wouldn't pass me at all because I showed him up...yet another kept insisting that his interpretation of a plumbing code was correct when it was not - cost me 1 month of time.A neccessary evil IMO, they were usually former GCs who couldn't make it in the real world.....  

We weren't fooled when they increased to $5,000 and kept going up.

WHAT IS A COST SEGREGATION STUDY?

However, I still struggle to understand the art of estimating rehab costs. 

After 2 months going back and forth with them, they finally ended up paying 50% of the $9000 bill.

These methods include: Detailed Engineering Cost ApproachDetailed Engineering Cost Estimate ApproachSurvey or Letter ApproachResidual Estimation ApproachSampling or Modeling ApproachExperience or “Rule of Thumb” ApproachIt’s important to understand the differences between the approaches including which one best fits your property and the reliability of each approach.DETAILED ENGINEERING COST APPROACHThis approach compiles the costs from construction and accounting reports to build a report.