Needs paint, carpet, light fixtures, and trim.

I promptly began ripping out carpet, trim, old kitchen cabinets etc.

Sometimes velvet, sometimes eggshell, always with high gloss trim and doors.What is the age of your typical buyers? 

He installed it in about 6 hours which included removing and replacing green-board and trim. 

Turn on the lights, repair the broken windows, change the landscaping (trim it aggressively), I sometimes prime the exterior.  

When doing "finish caulking" (baseboard, crown molding, door trim, ect.) the last thing you want is to be wiping away loads of excess caulking.

Not expensive touches but unique, such as an embossed crest in a fireplace mantel or in trim moldings, a brass mail drop in the front door, brick or stone mail boxes, embossed concrete as stone work, house number counter sunk in an exterior beam, these can identify your work and with a good reputation will add value as a more sought after home than the run of the mill comps.

Sweat equity included - framing, windows, siding, roofing, concrete flatwork, painting, trim, etc...Of course it was a lot of hard work building a house and working fulltime but we managed.

I hired out the plumbing, electrical, granite counters and tile but I installed cabinets, trim and lighting.

(SMH)-I want to get rid of a lot of the bushes out back because renters are not going to trim them like they should be trimmed…-Apply much needed paint i.e.. front porch, back porch, garage and other areas that looks dull.