(I'd pay for a decorator or architect consult)4.

If you’re wanting to be the project manager yourself, I have had a lot of luck in calling specific wholesalers in the area you’re looking at to get 3 recommendations (Sherwin Williams for paint, Floor and Decor for tile, etc).

@Jennifer Marshall floor n decore in Austin has 12x24 black granite tile $8 EA as well as precut granite counters for 3-500$.

Make it only decorative?

Right now, the leases on my properties start in April, June, August and September, and if I went under contract on anything else in 2018, the lease would start in Nov, Dec or Jan. 

The idea is to stage, to decorate a place to sold it much more quickly.

It’s been our experience that some of the nicest decorated and straightened apartments hide the biggest horrors once the tenant moves out.

Three out of five bedrooms are ready to decorate and occupy and two need finishing (plumbing, heating, water, electric - all done.

If the tenant is friendly, works with your listing agent for showings and is clean and neat and their place is tastefully decorated then its worth trying to sell when you have a tenant in place.

I would add Floor and Decor for flooring though.