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Free rehab cost calculator. Estimate your flip budget in 60 seconds.

Tell Freddie what the property looks like and what you're planning — paint and flooring, full kitchen and baths, structural — and get a defensible rehab budget you can use for your offer, your lender, and your scope of work. Most rehab software charges $40-100/month. Freddie does it free.

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Hey, I'm Freddie. Tell me about the property — square footage, condition, and what you're planning to renovate.
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What you get — free

Estimate the rehab, drop it into the full deal score, see whether the project pencils.

Rehab Budget Estimate
A defensible rehab number based on size, condition, and scope. Use it for your offer math, lender pre-qual, or contractor scoping conversations.
Rehab Ratio Score
Freddie automatically calculates rehab as a percent of ARV — the number experienced investors look at first to spot over-renovated deals.
Drops Into Full Deal Math
The rehab number flows directly into the deal score alongside purchase price, ARV, holding costs, and financing. One conversation, full picture.
Cleanout vs. Full Rehab
For wholetail strategies, tell Freddie cleanout cost instead. The scoring adapts to your actual exit, not a forced renovation assumption.
Score Certificate PDF
A printable one-pager you can share with your contractor, lender, or partner. Free with a registered account.
Built by Active Flipper
20+ years of fix-and-flip experience in the Northern Virginia market. Freddie was built by someone who has signed thousands of contractor checks.

Rehab ratio benchmarks

The single number experienced investors look at to spot over-rehabbed deals. Freddie scores against these thresholds.

Under 10%
Light cosmetic
Paint, flooring, light fixtures. Wholetail and lipstick-flip territory.
10-15%
Standard flip
Kitchen and bath updates, flooring throughout, paint, some appliances.
15-20%
Heavy renovation
Major kitchens and baths, possibly some structural, mechanicals, layout changes.
20-25%
Tight margin
Full gut, structural, additions. Math gets sensitive — small overruns kill the deal.
Over 25%
Walk away
Almost no margin for surprises. Better as a wholesale or wholetail than a flip.
Real deal · Real numbers

How a Northern Virginia hoarder house used a $5K cleanout instead of a $80K rehab.

We bought a hoarder house for $210K. The full rehab estimate was around $80K — kitchen, baths, flooring, paint, mechanicals. Instead, we paid $5K for a cleanout and resold as-is for $349K. Freddie scored the wholetail at 100/100. The next investor — a flipper who bought it from us — did the full $80K renovation and made money on the other side. Sometimes the best rehab budget is the one you don't spend.

Hoarder house before cleanout — Northern Virginia rehab cost example
Before · As-purchased
Same property after $80K renovation by next investor
After · Buyer's renovation

We sold the property as-is for $349K with $5K of cleanout costs, no renovation. The renovation pictured was completed by the next investor who purchased it from us.

The Numbers
Purchase
$210,000
Our "rehab"
$5,000 cleanout
Skipped rehab
~$80,000
Sale price
$349,000
Strategy
Wholetail
Net profit
$115,050
100
Score
Strong Deal
Rehab lesson
The right rehab budget depends on your exit. A buy-and-hold rental needs more than a wholetail. A retail flip needs more than a BRRRR. Freddie estimates rehab against your strategy, not against a one-size-fits-all national average.

Common questions about the rehab calculator

What is a rehab calculator?+
A rehab calculator estimates the cost to renovate a property based on its size, condition, and the scope of work. FreeDealCalc's rehab calculator, powered by Freddie, walks through the scope in plain English and produces a defensible budget number you can use for offer math, lender conversations, or contractor scoping. It also drops that rehab number into the full deal score so you see whether the project pencils.
Is the rehab calculator free?+
Yes. Freddie estimates rehab budgets at no cost. Free registered users also unlock the Score Certificate PDF — a one-page summary you can share with your contractor, lender, or partner. Most rehab software charges $40-100/month. Freddie does it free.
How accurate is the rehab estimate?+
Freddie produces a planning-grade rehab estimate based on national cost averages and the scope you describe. It is calibrated for fix-and-flip and BRRRR projects in the $20K-$150K rehab range. Use the number for offer math, deal screening, and lender pre-qualification. For binding contractor pricing, always get line-item bids from local trades — Freddie is a starting point, not a substitute.
What does "rehab ratio" mean and why does Freddie score it?+
Rehab ratio is rehab budget divided by ARV. A ratio under 10% is light cosmetic work. 10-15% is standard fix-and-flip. 15-20% is heavy. Above 20% the math gets tight and your margin for surprises shrinks fast. Freddie weights rehab ratio into the deal score so you spot over-renovated deals before you commit.
Can I use this for a wholetail or as-is exit?+
Yes. If your strategy is wholetail (clean it out and resell as-is), tell Freddie the cleanout cost rather than a full rehab. He will run the math without forcing renovation costs you are not actually spending. The scoring adapts to your actual exit strategy.
Do I need an account to use the rehab calculator?+
No account is required to estimate a rehab and see your score. A free account unlocks the Score Certificate, Seller Proposal, and Disposition Package generators, and saves your projects to a dashboard.
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