My tenants are going to take care of minor repairs so you don't have to, and they'll go straight from renting to buying, which means no vacant house payments and no re-painting/re-carpeting.

If I do request that the apts are vacant I will also have to paint and possible recarpet, that is also an expense to consider.Any thoughts, also do these associated costs such as repainting, recarpet and finding new tenants factor into sale price and by how much?

You have a range of color choices, often about 5, to choose from when repainting.

But then I got to chapter 4 in my book, Every Landlord's Tax Deduction Guide (great book by the way), and read the crap about too many repairs in a short time can constitue a general plan of imporvment, therby classifying your repairs as improvements.Besides the foundation, I need to make other "repairs" such as, re-glazing the bathtub, re-finishing the wood floors, and completely repainting the interior.

We used her deposit to repaint and clean.

I think something was mentioned about the floors and walls needing repainting and reflooring.

Furthermore, I have yet to rent a unit to someone for even a short period of time where the unit didn't need re painting after the tenants moved out.

I am at a loss as to how to title this piece,I have a Townhome I bought(seller financed) in 2001 at $87500 @9%( at the time I do not have good credit)the balance now is 82000(which includes escrows)....the problem is I have done some work on this property.....replaced polybuthylene pipe @$2600,repainted the house$900, other repairs$1500,jacked up the foundation from the crawl space$1600......any way because of the Real estate downturn, there has been a lot of foreclosure around my house which means low appraisal, two units been offered at short sale at $60k and 35k...informal appraisal puts my townhome at 75k to 82k....needless to say I have a difficulty refinancing, credit is no longer a problem.....my question is how do u approach this owner to either write down the Principal to maybe 75k or cut the interest rate to maybe 6%...or alternatively I may have to walk out on the property....by the way how will this affect my credit,it is currently not recorded on my credit reports(I monitor all 3 religiously) the deed is however recorded in my County courthouse here in Cobb County ,Georgia...If any one has another option or approach I can take , pls let me know

I would consider even leaving the blue cabinets but if you decide to repaint them give them a couple coats of Kilz and they'll be fine.

The property was painted 4-5 years ago, and still in fairly good condition, do you think doing some touch up and repainting the window trims would be better than repaining the whole property?