You sort of end up looking like a cheap skate, crappier rental if it isn’t working though… to a renter.All the best!

He then sold the lots cheap to homebuyers, negotiated with a lender to provide mortgage financing, and teamed with a builder who would build simple, inexpensive homes.

I do no think they add any rental value and most patios would not add resale value as they are a cheap easy addition.

They are cheap enough on amazon.How old is the carpet and how big of an area is it?  

OLD stock yazoo clay and houses that originally were built as cheap as you can build .. of course not all but a vast majority of what you folks buy for cash flow rentals.then  on top of that a VERY tough tenant base and that market can really frustrate folks I owned over 200 of those and the happiest day of my life was when my partners bought me out for 4k a door.. done gone and good luck lOL

That's why they do it that way for commercial applications.I never buy the cheap junk they sell at Home Depot or anywhere else.

These highly-specialized professionals are not cheap. 

A cheap house may look great on paper, but the reality is far from that. 

It's cheap, it's near where we live, it needs to be rehabbed, it's the worst house on the block with a ton of potential.

The biggest issue for Baltimore and frankly any rust belt city is the rise of remote work, Baltimore is cheap for a major job center, but it’s not that cheap period, pretty much any area west of Frederick county or east of the bay bridge has ample housing stock for sub 300k and imo a better quality of life, so the one thing that Baltimore has going for it pre-pandemic which was a pretty solid mix of Fortune 500 companies located downtown has been significantly reduced & downtown is a ghostown now.