what is the best ways to estimate repairs 9 posts by 6 users

Posted: 09/27/2007 at 08:19PM

hello all its a short question but i know u guys have pleanty answer so please feel free to drop your post i would love to hear your thoughts?

Posted: 09/28/2007 at 09:41AM

If you are doing the work yourself, go spend a day at Home Depot or Lowes looking over the material price. Take each dept and add write down the cost of things that you would replace during a typical rehab.

Posted: 09/29/2007 at 08:53PM

I have a good contrator who was willing to go through a house with me that I was bidding on. It needed a ton of work and he priced out everything for me (I owe him dinner since my bid was not accepted). It gave me a good feel for the typical stuff and many of the unusualy items as well. Price will vary based on quality of materials such as different grades of windows, etc.

Posted: 07/27/2008 at 01:26AM

Well, if you know what you are looking at, it's hard to beat
http://www.contractor-books.com/CR/CD_Estimator_Intro.htm
for the price...

Posted: 09/04/2008 at 05:11PM

any other ideas, one of the gurus says pick an number 10k 15k 20k for single family home with an square footage of 1000 to 2000 depending out how ugly the property is