Most of the time most problems buyers find with homes are cosmetic or an easy fix such as re-painting a room, swapping out some plumbing fixtures etc. and are very easy to do.

Can the cabinets doors be repaired with a sand and repaint?

they care about does it look nice, can I get financing and what is it going to cost me per month.In my experience SFH tenants stay longer, longer tenancy means less vacancy, less re-painting, less repairs, and less time spent re-renting.

Decided to try again with a local lender; we were able to time it so our house had been repainted before it was done and did some yard work— 3K paint job brought us up 80K in appraised value.

Whole house repainted, carpeted, and not shown in the pics was another bathroom which was pretty much revamped.

Will you need to repaint the deck/porch?

Paint and carpets could be considered repair and maintenance (opex)  if the complex is large enough that they repaint and carpet a known number of units a year. 

I plan redoing 200 linear feet of the box gutters, re pouring the concrete, patch fire escape and repaint, and re build bowing wall at back of it.

It only needed touch up in a few wall areas and baseboards but the prior paint was flat and it was advised that I repaint with semigloss to avoid similar wall paint cleaning issues in future.

Also keep in mind that if you do anything with the windows you'll want to repaint them for LBP compliance.$600 in that area isn't bad for a 1 bedroom -- Civil Life is a border area that is lagging the rising rents a bit farther north in the TE South area but is also on the uptick.