Hi everyone, I'm looking for some sage advice on the re-developement of commercial/industrial buildings for the purpose of re-zoning them into multi-family apartment buildings.

@John Garcia, I am new on the investing front but I currently work in the submetering industry so I can help out with this one.  

Our Industry is Robust and we need a Robust Sofware program that we can depend on.  

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I used to sell Real Estate in Nebraska but it took me 7 years to get back into it here as I played around in the tourist service industry and worked at the Hard Rock Hotel for 6 years.

Industrial, anything under 100k sq ft is not being built right now.

.#3 Contact Local Contractors for Labor Pricing / Hire a GC to ConsultCall local Subcontractors and get budget pricing for common repairs on your typical rehab project.For example, call a roofer and ask what their average cost per Square of Architectural Asphalt Shingle Roofing would be on a 1,500 sf house, with a 6/12 pitch.Note: Some contractors will be reluctant to share pricing without seeing the property, but tell them you are just looking for a rough budget number you can use on future projects.You can also pay a General Contractor a consulting fee of a couple of hundred dollars (per house) to walkthrough a few properties with you and provide a detailed estimate of prices that you can use as your 'menu for future projects.#4 Compile Your Prices into a Spreadsheet or Estimating SoftwareOnce you start to get a better understanding of Labor and Material costs you will want to store this data into a spreadsheet or software that you can use to help you streamline the estimating process.The Book on Estimating Rehab Costs comes with a spreadsheet that you can use to help you populate your own database of labor pricing and material pricing.

I knew cost of living arbitrage was a huge factor in homeowner migrating to Atlanta, but it's encouraging to see an exponential growth in industry coming here, too. 

Mysteriously, they say they consult industry databases to determine construction costs, but then they don't come close to agreeing.

An entire huge industry is there specializing in it's acquisition and exit and they are not cheap.