Any creative recommendations y’all could throw out for this rookie couple “refreshing” their first home?

While I have been in real estate almost 30 years now, a lot of the classes were refreshers but some still added value - but for someone with little experience I would find it as gold

But I really love the results.painting cabinets I think can be very subjective and it can depend on the comps in the area your comparing your property. we also started from the ceiling and move down with this refresh— painted the ceiling and installed new light fixtures to Brighten the space—and sometimes that’s enough to “refresh” a space but in our case we wanted to move forward with painting the cabinets from the orangey oak. before after

Your story provides a valuable perspective for those considering real estate investing and offers a refreshing take on the necessity of expensive guru courses.It's unfortunate that many seminars and programs often present themselves as the only path to success in real estate, pressuring attendees to spend significant amounts of money on courses that may not be essential.

Unless they forget to renew/refresh it to give themselves another 10+ years. 

Seeing someone actually say the truth about this on these forums is refreshing. 

Question is do you want to lose a tenant over this and suffer a possible eviction process and a unit refresh or can you find another solution?

I refresh our lots list every few weeks and look at infill lots by price per acre, density allowed, new build average price and price per square foot, deliveries per year, etc as a driver for it.

I give tenants that are loyal, pay on time, a carpet shampoo with lease renewal, refresh paint in a room, but they all get market price increase if I'm increasing rents.. 

I am so glad to hear Didier had a great (all be it long) experience with Lower.com back in 2022, refreshing to hear forgiveness regarding the long term times considering it was in the heart of the low rate boom  - posistive expierences is absolutely our main priority and we're proud that's lead to those amazing reviews Cody mentioned up front!