Want to turn your inspection findings into capital planning insight for your clients? Learn how to estimate repair and replacement costs and incorporate it into your sales and workflow as a value-added service.
Cost-to-cure reporting services equip inspectors to help commercial clients understand the financial impact of property conditions and plan for both immediate and long-term expenses. You’ll follow demos and practice how to create a cost-to-cure table from your inspection findings and apply various methods to estimate the costs of necessary improvements.
Key topics include:
Understanding your role in the process and common client goals
Speaking your client’s language with capital planning terminology
Learning about reserve tables, CapEx, OpEx, and other client needs
Creating cost-to-cure tables using a step-by-step process
Using local or national cost data sources
Applying useful life, inflation, and risk factors
Determining immediate and long-term expenses based on visible property conditions
Pricing, marketing, and delivering cost-to-cure tables
Expanding your services for investors, brokers, building owners, and lease tenants
Practicing with real-world examples and ready-to-use templates
The course is hosted live on Zoom by Lance Coffman. Students will gain access to a course page with prep materials, session meeting links, and post-course resources, including report templates, terminology sheets, how-to guides, and a certificate of completion.