The Book on Estimating Rehab Costs: The Investor’s Guide to Defining Your Renovation Plan, Building Your Budget, and Knowing Exactly How Much It All Costs (Fix-and-Flip 2)

How much does it in point of fact cost to flip a house? In this new second edition, get the entire updated costs, upgrade details, and associated values relating to estimating your next renovation!

Determine how to appropriately estimate all the costs you are likely to face all through renovation—and get all your rehab questions answered in a single place! In The Book on Estimating Rehab Costs, expert real estate investor and fix-and-flipper J Scott reveals the tried-and-tested steps of his professional framework and his methodology for precisely evaluating renovation costs from hundreds of his own successful rehab projects. Learn every detailed tip, trick, and tactic you want to appropriately budget any house flipping project or investment property renovation.

You don’t want to be a contractor to flip houses, but you do want to know the fundamentals of budgeting and pricing your renovation—including everything from cosmetic renovations to complex installations and upgrades. Whether you are preparing to walk through your very first rehab project or you’re an experienced home flipper, this handbook will be your guide to identifying renovation projects, creating a scope of work, and staying on budget to ensure a timely profit!

Inside, you’re going to learn how to:

• Inspect every aspect of a property to create your renovation scope

• Decide which upgrade options provide the biggest bang for your buck

• Identify the 150+ most common renovations you can likely encounter

• Recognize big problems (like mold and termites!) and quickly fix them

• Assign accurate prices to every rehab task to build a detailed budget

• Determine which contractors are best for certain repairs or projects

• Break down the top 25 basic components of a renovation

• And so much more!