We are tackling a basement project in a new suburban house for some family members.  This will give us some interesting insight into what it actually costs to do a basement from scratch basically.  A lot of trades and logistics are involved in these projects.   I typically don't tackle any job with a construction budget less than $1/2 million. So doing a job and trying to squeeze everything into $20k is fun. I will post the final cost to do the work at the end. 

Basement taping underway. We've done Framing, mechanical, vacuum, electrical, plumbing and a lot of cleanup work and logistics to get to this point.  Plenty if permit fees too, the city made some nice profit on this job.