40-unit - Recommendations on how nice to renovate Kitchens

[David Walkotten]

Just bought a 40-unit garden style apartment complex. 

Advice on renovating kitchens as we turn occasional units: currently there are 1990s honey oak kitchen cabinets and a standard stainless kitchen sink with regular old faucet. Laminate countertops, white appliances.

Would you paint cabinets? I am planning on some stainless pulls for hardware. Gooseneck faucet? Replace with black or stainless appliances if they're old?

Or more 'leave it' and just throw on some pull handles. 

These are roughly $800 rent rate apartments with accepting section 8 tenants. Around 800 sq ft and they can get beat up a little bit. Tons of pretty identical apartments in the area so I'm thinking it would give me an edge if I do them slightly nicer. Or am I wasting money by doing them nicer (roughly $1000 more per kitchen).