You need to do more than a day of fixups - painting, carpet steam cleaned, cleaning all drawers and appliances, exterior touchups.You have a "perfect" process set out, but it's one that will push you to make a bad tenant decision and not vet them properly.

After the current tenants move out, I need to replace the carpet and pad. 

Now using the de minimis/routine maintenance safe harbors instead of bonus depreciation for appliances, carpet and the like.

I’m fairly new to the self-managing/property management business and certainly new to dealing with section 8 tenants.I have a potential section 8 tenant who has inquired about one of my properties and they are in their opinion “disgusted” with the way the carpet looks however up until this point in my efforts of marketing the property I have not had one complaint concerning the carpet.That being said she has requested to rip out the carpet, in turn to replace the carpet with hardwood floors. 

For example, on what I thought was a relatively simple project in a bathroom reno which was fully gutted down to the studs already, I had more than one quote for over $7k to run pex supply lines and rough in a shower drain and toilet drain off of an existing main stack, all of which ended up costing me about $200 in pex lines, PVC fittings, and sawzall blades.If you need any hardwood flooring repaired, patched, or refinished, you can't beat Dave's Hardwood Flooring out of Blaine - $3k spent with them fully brought one of my duplex unit's original 100+ year old maple floors back to life.If you're putting in any stone counters in your kitchens or for bathroom vanities, Twin City Discount Granite have been awesome to work with, and consistently have the best pricing I've found in the area on fully installed granite and quartz.I also have a great drywall guy, as well as a really good carpet install guy - feel free to DM me if you want either of their contact info!

Wholesale house bought from "Invest with Ben"New LVP throughout (Carpet in bedrooms)New KitchenNew WindowsNew BathroomsPaint ThroughoutFinishes/Fixtures/Minor plumbing work as well as front door replacementLandscaping/Very little outside work$153k purchase ~$46k rehab (Used our own guys so was able to get labor at cost)Sold for $242k3/2 ranch 1200 sq ft with a 2 car garage. 

I've heard tales from landlords whose inspections failed due to a pulled thread in a carpet now being a "trip hazard".No thanks. 

Check for burn marks Burn marks on furniture, countertops, or carpets are a clear sign of smoking.

For example my simple spruce up would be, renno bathroom, and kitchen, paint, and redo carpet upstairs.But if i think real deep into what I could do to make it a STUNNER then I think, knock down walls, create more open/broken floor plan, add central air, possibly do an addition to add a 3rd bedroom and second bath.So when you could do ANYTHING .. how do you draw the line of what you should do?

Despite the mess I was in, she stepped in and took charge of selling my property with absolute professionalism.