So I've got a lead that came through my direct mail marketing that I will be following up on later today or this weekend. I have a little bit of construction experience and have read J. Scotts book on estimating rehab...

My wife and me are considering to build a new single family house in Cape Coral. For the first 10 years we would see it as an investment and want to rent it based on long-term contracts. After that we might switch to ...

How does one handle getting multiple general contractor proposals on a property to be fixed and flipped, prior to making an offer to the seller. Will seller allow multiple walk throughs of the contractors?

Hi. My name is Kenneth and I'm new to wholesaling. It's great to find BiggerPockets.com. I have a question regarding repair estimations  I was told by my guru  to simply estimate on the basis of square footage  exampl...

I've heard of people inviting several contractors over at the same time to provide estimates.  Is this considered acceptable or does it make it too awkward for everyone?   I live in a small town and so there might be ...

Looking for some advice, looking at a property that had fire damage (insurance declared a total loss) county inspector says it can be rehab up to code he mentioned that a structural engineer will be required. first ti...

Hi All,I've attached an image that shows two methods of running numbers on this potential cash flow property. The left image is highly detailed, the right image is percentage based. Am I being too crazy with the more ...

I'm new to the real estate scene, and I saw this interesting video on getting a very quick initial estimate on rehab costs as you're considering a bunch of deals.https://youtu.be/EtCDWoJVtOEIs what they're saying fair...

We had hurricane damage on our personal roof and had a roofing company work with us through the insurance claim process.  Insurance company gave us 15k.  There was other areas of the house damaged but apparently we ca...

Hi Everyone,I have a newbie question regarding how I should go about getting multiple GC's to give you estimates/bids on a rehab. For instance, if I wanted to look at a distressed property with my real estate agent wo...