With fresh paint throughout inside and out, brand-new roof, dual HVAC systems, updated water heater, stainless steel appliances, lighting fixtures, outlets, countertops, and PEX plumbing just to name a few.

This means the main home would need to have decent furniture and appliances available, at minimum in the common areas but likely some bedrooms as well. 

This was due to finance arbitrage like many retail bankruptcies, They were selling furniture/TV/appliances for 2 decades financed at 3-4% and borrowing at 2-3%, now their billions in floating rate notes are at 7-8% but only getting the fixed 3-4% for the washing machines etc They lost 77 mil last year and rising fast so had to Chapter 11 to stop the bleeding.Next 1-2 years will be very interesting in markets/CRE etc.

Home warranties are basically like insurance for the house systems and appliances.

Invest in a security camera—we had a break-in where someone lived in the house for days and stole appliances, which insurance didn’t cover.

I usually recommend clients a pretty easy cosmetic rehab which is refinish floors, replace cabinets with modern white ones, add a white stone, new appliances, new bathroom vanity/mirror/light fixture and add in unit laundry. 

Anything smaller makes it harder to get them washed properly.Check out the Yale Appliance Blog - https://blog.yaleappliance.com/They cover all sorts of topics about appliances.

Its extremely important when running tighter margins like what you're talking about to focus on age of HVAC, water heater, appliances, roof, etc.

Quartz countertops, fully tiled bathrooms, higher ceilings and doors, LVP flooring throughout. for us its upgraded appliance packages NO micro above the drop in stove.

New construction, builder preferred lender helped buy down rate, I negotiated builder to add appliances and blinds, and negotiated price.