Construction estimating · Lexington, Kentucky
We price bids for Lexington builders.
For general contractors and subs with more invitations to bid than hours to price them. Plans in by Thursday. A priced bid back Monday morning, every assumption written down, one bidder per job.
What we do
Three things, all of them about what a building costs.
Price your bid
A takeoff and a priced bid with a scope sheet, so you can bid the jobs you have been passing on. $650 to $1,500 a bid. We price a job for one bidder only.
Tell you what an ADU will cost
A written feasibility and cost audit for a second unit on your Lexington lot. Setbacks, utilities, an itemized cost range and a go or no-go. $1,500 flat.
Buy small infill property
Houses that will take a second unit, two-to-four unit buildings, vacant lots inside the urban service boundary. Send one and you get an answer in two business days.
How it works
Plans in. Priced bid out.
No meetings to schedule and nothing to install. The whole thing runs on email.
Send what you got
Drawings, the invitation to bid, and how you carry markup. If a spec book came with it, send that too.
We take off and price it
Quantities off the drawings, priced against current central Kentucky material and sub numbers.
You get it back Monday
A priced bid and a scope sheet, with every assumption and every field-verification item listed.
The bid is yours. You set the markup, you sign it, you own the number. We do the takeoff and the pricing underneath it, and every line is there for you to check.
Who we are
One person, and he prices buildings for a living.
Hartwood Group is run by Eli Hart in Lexington. Construction management at Eastern Kentucky University, and four rotations on the building side: quality control at an asphalt plant, project engineering and project management at two commercial general contractors, and estimating at an electrical contractor.
Estimating is the job. It is what we do for clients, it is how we price our own acquisitions, and it is the one thing on this site that is not a guess.
Hartwood is early, and it is worth being straight about that. The first acquisition is in front of us, not behind us. If you need a firm with twenty years of closings, that is not us yet. If you need a bid priced by Monday by someone whose name is on it, that is exactly us.
Property
We also buy small infill property in Lexington.
Fayette County first. Any condition. Bring us one and you get a straight answer in two business days, priced by the same person who prices the bids.
- Single-family that will take an ADU. Lexington allows a second unit up to 800 square feet on urban single-family lots.
- Two-to-four unit buildings, occupied or vacant. Dated, tired and under-rented is fine.
- Vacant infill lots inside the urban service boundary.
- Small commercial worth converting.
Get in touch
Builders, send plans. Owners and brokers, send the address.
Plans go through the estimating page. A property goes in the form below. Either way it lands with Eli, and nobody else calls you.
Got it.
Eli will come back to you within two business days. If it is time-sensitive, call or text (859) 361-9320.