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Limit 1: Power - nowhere to store fuel, no way small fuel lines could supply enough thrust to lift a human.
Limit 2: Flight Stability - humans would lose balance very easily and limb mounted thrusters would fail to correct before said human breaks their neck on a brick wall or the road or something.
Limit 3: Controls wouldn't work well. Voice activation would be slow. Hand controls would be complicated and clumsy.
Ignoring all research and devopment costs, Northrupp Grumman could probably build a rudimentary very flawed version for about $183,262,894.63 if I had to guess. The bulk of the cost is sensitive and complicated electronic components, ultra lightweight frame materials, and a million dollar paint job.
There also is no where to put all the computational power needed to control the thing. To be able to control the suit properly, the targeting computer for the weapons, the communications, etc.
There's literally no room in the suit for anything more than a couple single board computers.
And we'd need to dissipate all the waste heat from the thrusters and the fuel source, too. Without causing injury to the wearer.