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.
1 This does not include acquisition of the land or any demolition costs, however. 2  The above figures place this construction at a $59 per square foot cost, though a national average of stands between $50 to $70 for most projects. This does not include acquisition of the land or any demolition costs, however. 2  The above figures place this construction at a $59 per square foot cost, though a national average of stands between $50 to $70 for most projects.