It's essentially turnkey minus the usual maintenance such as new carpets and paints.

No professional is 'necessarily required' but it is normally a tradeoff between time saving, assurance that things are done correctly for a cost.For me, i can paint one of my rentals, but i decide my time is better spent elsewhere.Best of luck.

We recently had a rental property where the unit needed re-painted and the carpets needed professionally cleaned multiple times to even get the smell out; which your best bet at that point may just to be to replace any carpeting you may have in the unit. 

The reason for this is that the month-to-month tenant will leave the property sooner and thus you will have to come out of pocket to prep the property for the next tenant (i.e. clean it up, repairs, paint, etc.)

.• Needs lots of new paint, floors, wallboard, plaster repair, fixtures, and updated appliances.3.

They also love the home so much that they've asked if they could replace the first floor carpeting and paint the bathrooms on their dime.

.- It needed a community face lift and re-brand (was called windmill apartments....yuck.)We came in and strategically worked our business plan:- We upgraded the exterior including fresh paint, signage, and landscaping.- We removed delinquent tenants and changed the community standards around to provide a safe and clean place of living.- We've upgraded 75% of the units with fresh flooring, paint, cabinets, countertops, and appliances as needed.When we took over the property the 16 units were producing around $9000/month in gross rent.I just checked our rent roll today, and we just crossed $17,000 in gross income monthly!

I do have good folks for plumbing, flooring, landscape, fencing and paint.

Floors, paint and say a roof or hvac. 

Peeling paint, handrails on stairs and cracked glass are no-no.