The safest bet is to get yourself some oil based primer and a coat of paint on the interior when turning it over.

The purchase price is very low, because it is currently an emty industrial building zoned single family, so it cannot be used as designed.

The latter, though more expedient, necessitates access to the property for interior assessment at the borrower's own convenience .

Hire a consultant who has the CRE or CCIM designation 

Even though the basic structure was fine .. needed new counters appliances flooring interior exterior paint and other upgrades to get top dollar.

Those sellers want to be on the MLS but their situations aren't what the MLS is designed for.

Has anyone used Wayfair and their design services? 

Allen does a great job of this with all of his emails: https://emailsnest.com/brands/nothing-held-back/the-5-reason...To stay top of mind in your town but also with some relation to real estate could be to email content around interior design trends and home decor.

I assume that it may also be cost effective to go with a builders templated design as the design docs have been completed and approved by city?

I imagine that is operator to operator and design to design though.