The rate that you pay to process a credit card transaction is a combination of base costs and markups called merchant discount. Think of merchant discount as the retail price of credit card processing, base costs as raw material expenses and the markup as production costs.
I divided the rehab cost by the square footage and came up with a cost per square foot for each home. The rehab ranged from 7-15 dollars per sqft for an average of $12 per sqft. For example a 1000 sqft home should cost around $12,000 on average to do a cosmetic rehab.
For this reason, many banks simply do not offer conventional rehab loans at higher than 80 percent of the final cost. If you buy a home for $150,000 with plans for an additional $50,000 in repairs, the down payment required for a conventional rehab loan would be $40,000. For FHA, it would be $7,000.