My contractor and I went to the local Habitat for Humanity Restore and found a set of cabinets that will work for the house for $775 and they need to be repainted for $200 which drops my cabinet costs by $1200 from my estimates.

At that time we purchased the house, the previous owner had just put on a new roof, two new furnaces and repainted the exterior to ready the house for sale.  

Then, I fell into repainting the kitchen cabinets last minute as they were just too beat up.

Every room will need a thorough clean and repaint to get the smell out, then a good cleaning on the way out.

I would also make a budget list of what it would cost to repaint, re-carpet, reroof, new hvac etc and see what these numbers are.

If you are going to repaint the house then start from scratch and do what you want because you are not trying to salvage what is there.

Also, i have successfully got tenants to accept hefty rent increases by promising to repaint their unit once they sign the new lease.  

It is not derelict, but needs all new electrical and plumbing, interior and exterior repainting, tear-off re-roofing and repairs to the fieldstone foundation.

Although I am hoping the tenant, will not find the need to paint (everyone thinks they can paint but few take the time to do a good job) I have read in other posts that when tenant repaints they are making the place their own and tend to stay longer. 

The flooring throughout needed to be replace, the kitchen looked like it had been gutted and the entire house need to be repainted.