There was a fire a year and a half ago, the ceiling has been rebuilt and repainted.

If most sales in the area are to owner occupants, you'll need to get them out, clean it up, repaint (three years old paint in a rental will need a complete repaint.)Find out recent comparable sales.

I do a lot of Repairing, Repainting, Refinishing, Replacing, ect, ect.

You repaint and recarpet these houses, which is generally a minimum required to rent, you now just invested half the homes value in the house, or more.

Bribe your college buddies with beer to help you repaint it.

I haven't priced it but I think it would be easier to maintain than a wooden one that you'd have to keep repainting.

Repaint exterior, completely updated surveillance system(17 cameras), new webbased software, and a website.

I directly asked the new tenants if they got a free half-months rent for paying the utilities for the first part of their tenancy, and they said the agreement was they got a free-half months rent if they would buy paint and repaint some of the house (after my three-year tenancy).

They just finished repainting the interior of the house.

Then show them the cost of renting: re-painting or re-carpet after every few tenants, people trashing the house, unreliable rent, high turnover, vacancies inbetween renters.