If there is somebody with a bit of electrical experience doing the work, you can save a lot of money getting simple LED strips off of Amazon, versus buying lights with plastic covers.Just make sure to stick them strongly onto an inside edge, where they LED lights won't be directly visible, and it will look great.

In order for me to get to a number that made sense, I had to move in for a year so that I could take advantage of a lower down payment and interest rate.I routinely troll the MLS, but similar to you, there haven't been very many deals that make sense over the last 1+ years; I am only considering properties that don't require major surgery. 

I’m very sensitive to smells, to the point that all of the spices in our pantry are in a ziplock back, which is then inside a plastic Tupperware container.

There are three types; the original pure vinyl meaning even the backer is vinyl, the WPC backer type product(Wood Plastic Composite) which is not really a LVP but and engineered product with a 1.5mm tile glued to a rigid backer similar to outdoor deck material and the newest product Rigidcore or SPC(Stone Plastic Composite) which is an extruded material similar to the original but with a ton of limestone in the backer to give it the rigidity of WPC without the issue of WPC such as denting and being noisy unless you put a pad under it or it has one attached(don't buy cork pad go with a dense closed cell polyurethane.Original CL(click lock) is flexible and will conform to a sloped subfloor like basements, the other two don't and require prep to build up areas which you really don't want to do in a basement.

Do not throw or drop removed and use a 6-mil thick plastic sheeting to wrap it in and secure the plastic with duct tape.

Added an extra bedroom on the loft that was pretty huge: 3--> 4 bedrooms; still room to have a home theater and extra room for more cash flow.Also the light fixture in the kitchen looked like you were in an hospital surgery room... not very appealing when you enter in the house because the first thing you see... so put some modern can lights and also added a garage door opener (who wants one you operate manually anyway?)

I bought a scratch n dent refrigerator locally - brand new still has all the blue tape securing everything and the plastic wrap, just a couple of dents.

If you do the heating wire you may want to upgrade that section of pipe to plastic piping which won't attract as much cold as metal pipes.

I'm going to try to make that, although my wife may be having surgery that day, so it hinges on that.

The local inspectors here spot every defect and require them to be fixed (small leak stain on ceiling, tenant-destroyed drawer, plastic accordian door off its hinges, etc.)