Going to give you an example and you can decide what is better. bought a SFH painted the whole house inside, new floors in kitchen, refinished floors in the rest of the house. the house had oil heat and i was converting over to Gas. new Furnace and Hot water heater sitting in the basement ready to go in.

Has anyone ever used a porcelain spray to refinish tiles and a bath tub?

I am curious if their would be a market for this condo once refinished (it is a rehab).

The inside paint will be finished this week, floor refinishing starts on Wednesday, matching stainless steel appliances arrive tomorrow and the kitchen will soon be finished!  

You will probably have to refinish floors.

Current flooring is laminate, so there's no existing hardwood to re-finish.

I invest in Baltimore Maryland area, but I had a tub refinished and it cost about $300.

Likewise refinishing isn't cheap (will probably be putting down 1500 ft through main floor and stairs).The tile that looks like wood, and higher end laminates end up costing around the same as wood.

Water damage and pet urine are hard things to overcome when re-finishing a hardwood floor.

Louis, MO Purchase price: $50,000 (short sale) - aunt was agent, so fee was waived (she was helping us out) - borrowed money from grandma for the down payment: $13,000 Material costs: $8000I forgot to itemize everything over the course of the four years, but the improvements were: -blown in insulation-tile floor in kitchen-new bathroom flooring x2-new basement carpet-new basement flooring (previous was rotted through) -new carpet in bedroom x2-hard wood flooring refinished-new refrigerator-painted entire interior of the house-installed two custom closets in bedrooms-repaired and repainted the garage-tore out dinning room drop ceiling, installed drywall ceilingAll the work was done by us, save the hardwood floors.Sale Price: $108,000 less: -$6000 in fees (man I need to get a real estate license) -$5000 in concessions Net: $43,000 $108,000-$33,000 left on the note-$13,000 to grandma-$6000 fees-$5000 concessions-$8000 material costsThe problem that I have is how to value this in terms of holding costs.