Chicago · South suburbs
Most investors get one half of that right. I work on both sides of it: what a property costs to buy, and what it actually costs to make ready.
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A short list, because the work is specific.
Fix-and-flip investors who need a realistic number before they commit, not after demolition.
Buy-and-hold investors weighing what to fix now, what to defer, and what a tenant will actually notice.
First-time investors who have run the spreadsheet but have never priced a scope of work.
Out-of-state investors who need someone local who will tell them what a property looks like in person.
If you already own the property and only need construction, that conversation belongs with Homer Reno.
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These are separate engagements. Each has its own agreement and its own compensation, and using one is never a condition of getting the other.
Path A
Representation on the buy or the sell side, with the rehab implications priced in rather than guessed at.
Brokerage services are not currently offered through this site. The construction and feasibility side of a purchase decision is available now.
What is available today
Path B
Residential rehabilitation through Homer Reno LLC: scope, pricing, trade coordination, inspections, draws, and closeout.
Path C
Some investors want one person who understands the acquisition and the construction. That is workable, and it is still two agreements with two scopes and two fees.
You will get the conflict-of-interest position in writing before anything is signed. How that is handled.
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One project, in progress. Not a portfolio.
A full residential rehabilitation in South Shore, Chicago, where I am both the owner and the general contractor.
It is an active job, not a finished success story. The value of showing it is that every decision is documented while it is being made: what the scope covers, what changed once walls came open, what the inspections required, and what each draw paid for.
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An offer is a bet on a scope of work. If the scope is wrong, the offer is wrong, and no amount of negotiation later fixes it. That is the part most investors are guessing at when they buy.
What I bring to a purchase decision is the same discipline the job needs anyway: a scope written line by line, costs tracked against it, permits and inspections treated as schedule items rather than surprises, and change orders documented when conditions change instead of absorbed quietly.
None of that is exotic. It is ordinary construction administration. It is just rarely applied before the purchase, which is exactly when it is worth the most.
The first conversation is about whether the numbers work and what the construction side actually looks like. If it is not a fit, you will hear that.
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