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Some house flippers choose to use a general contractor to manage the entire job.  This is especially true when house flipping is not your primary source of income.  You will need someone there watching your contractors every other day at a minimum in this business.

The two types of bidding methods contractors typically use are “Total Cost” or “Time and Materials”.   The rehab or remodel process can be a tricky one.  You can never know just how much work needs to be done until you start the demolition process.  This is why many contractors choose a time and materials bid.  This type of contract requires you to pay them by the hour, plus materials, until the job is completed.  As you can imagine, this could get very expensive!  A total cost bid however contains a set price.  When combined with detailed plans, and a spec sheet, the total cost contract is the safest route to take for house flippers.  It limits the amount you will pay and typically only very experienced contractors will even give you this type of bid.  If the contractor under estimates the job, he or she will have to eat the extra costs.   The only down side is that you run the risk of the contractor quitting or attempting to get ahead of you on the payments and then leaving the job.  Once again this goes back to doing your due diligence on the contractors prior to hiring them.