If the covenant specifically prohibits renting out rooms or STRs, you may be restricted from doing so.You should carefully review the covenants tied to your property to understand the specific restrictions.

Have you spoken to local fire officials who would burn it down for you as part of training. we were able to do this once where we coordinated wiht local fire department and they burned it down for us and took care of it as part of their training. 

Be really careful if you go this route, there are some shady actors in this space. 

Placing solid tenants that take care of your property5.

We all know what goes on in bathrooms and what kind of extra care they need.

People who no longer want to take care of a big house and a big yard. 

As others have stated, your fit & finish goals should be guided by whether you plan to:1) Rent: tenants don't always take care of a property, so you want to use lower-grade materials and workmanship.2) Flip: higher quality on workmanship and materials is usually required.Regardless, you always want to "Maintain to the Neighborhood".

As long my refi goes through ok I think I'd like to hold onto the BRRR and be more careful about what I get into next.

Be sure to review the legal documents, oral representations won't stand up in court.

@Scott Suryan we've review REI Nation's processes and met Chris - if we ever did turnkey, we'd model it after their systems!