Floor Plan and Budgeting App

[Drew Klingler]

What are your favorite floor plan and rehab estimate apps/software/websites? Also, I know magicplan can create a floor plan and cost estimate. Is there any other options that can do both?

[Ryan Johnston]

Sketchup is probably the best online software that you can get as a free user. There's a library of furniture, it's simple to use, and it looks decent. As for a cost estimate - I'm not sure of any app that I would trust to do a cost estimate. I usually just do a square foot and quantity takeoff and estimate it myself. The costs vary so much from market to market that it's difficult to provide an estimate like that. Example: my insulation cost per square foot in FL is going to be 10x less than your cost per square foot for insulation in MI.