Chicago rehab cost estimate before buying flip

Proof of ROI answers Chicago rehab cost estimate before buying flip — File vs Proof at $199/mo after free Files. Not a group-chat guess and not a phone call first. Run a File free on proofofroi.com. Then the wall: $199/mo — We run the deal in 60 seconds and cost the rehab.

Estimate rehab before the offer, not after the inspection

Searching Chicago rehab cost estimate before buying flip usually lands you on a $/sf 2026 blog, a renovation-buyer checklist that says “bring a contractor during contingency,” or a national deal workflow that still blanks the rehab cell. Those pages are useful filters. They are not a dated cost band tied to the sold finish you named, and they do not print Buy / Renegotiate / Pass with a max safe offer before you bid.

ARV without a rehab number is a hobby. A Zestimate, a comps PDF, or a square-foot table does not tell you if the Chicago flip is profitable after permits, hold, and the finish buyers will pay for. Cosmetic vs gut ranges and contingency notes help — they still leave the rehab line as a guess until someone costs toward a sold look-alike. We run the deal in 60 seconds and cost the rehab toward the exit you named — subject photos plus sold flip comps, reviewed by Construction. Not a unit-cost database marketed as the product.

Here is how Proof of ROI stacks the two numbers. Fast comps and deal run give you the ARV side. Construction review of subject photos and the sold rehab look-alike gives you the rehab side. Rehab stays Construction Proof (pending) until a Proof stamp prices the rehab from subject photos + a sold flip toward that finish. Sell costs, buy-close costs, and hold cost sit in the stack. Margin is not optional: at least $25k or 12% of mid ARV, whichever is higher. Max safe offer is mid ARV minus mid rehab minus those costs minus margin. If worst-case profit is red, that is a Pass. Not a meeting.

Lenders do not fund a screenshot of someone else’s estimator. They fund a stamped cost band and a clear max offer. You do not need another calculator that still blanks the rehab cell. Paste the sold house you want to look like. Upload the subject. That is the dual stack under $199/mo — File plus two Construction Proofs a month; extra Proof $129; unused do not roll.

Who this is for: Chicago and Chicagoland flippers typing rehab cost estimate before they buy; hard-money and private lenders who need both numbers in the file; out-of-town capital that already knows ARV and still does not know if the flip pencils; tired spreadsheet users who keep changing the rehab line until it “works.”

What this is not: a homes-for-sale page, a foreclosure hub, a promised-return pitch, a same-day bid claim, or a phone-first sales desk. Public phone (708) 901-1805 lives in the footer only. The File is the funnel. Soft DEMO comps when live data is not used. Construction Proof (photos + sold flip) is not a contractor bid.

Hub: Proof of ROI. Sibling job pages: max safe offer, construction loan packet, buy / renegotiate / pass, target sold rehab.

Run the File for ARV. Get Proof to cost the rehab.

Run the File for ARV. Get Proof to cost the rehab. $199/mo — then the wall

Soft DEMO comps when live data is not used. Construction Proof (photos + sold flip) is not a contractor bid. Returns are not promised. Mitch & Banc Realty Group · Suite 208.