I’ve seen some investors carry towel bars and an occasional door knob onto a job site now and then, but they typically just agree that a kitchen will cost “$X” and a bathroom will cost “$Y” and anything beyond those parameters must be discussed by all parties before purchase, etc.

I'm an investor w 2 properties in New York,  Hudson Valley, Orange county looking at moderate expansion and investments in single/multi family houses.

In 2018, these "artists" can be replaced by millennial hipsters that open coffee shops, juice bars, and hot yoga studios in low income areas subsequently causing the area to get increasingly better over time.Has anyone else noticed this trend?

You can do a search in the search bar above for "Subject+To" "Sub2" & "Subject 2" and have a lot of information at your fingertips. 

Purchase prices is $205k and walking distance to all the bars on Colley by Cogans and all the restaurants behind ODU.

You can have nice subdivision next to a dicey one, a bar next to a church, a school next to a pipeyard or a factory, etc. 

Barring that, you can cover it with a towel, pick it up and put it outside. 

@Jon Klaus  Jon as we know this is all regional I am always amazed at how cost effective your builds are in Texas I have a 2.2 mil spec going in Charleston 2600 sq ftt and that's going to come out at 300 a foot. not including the lot of course.. which was 570k. in this instance no pilings but we did elevator 20k .. what does it in the historic district of Charleston is all the custom items you have to buy siding roof windows architecture 60k in hard scape landsape on a 4k sq ft lot.. that type of thing. when we are out of the BAR heavy duty areas we are building at 100 a foot or so.. 

I think this might be a better choice that doing metal bars on the windows for the most basic reason it looks better.

Thank you @Dan Barli.