Use economical fixtures and appliances.Keep the leasing office clean and not looking cluttered. 

I may get badgered here, and I apologize if this may be seen as politically incorrect, but good for you... this is the exact thing we see in the bible, and in our church all the time; people who messed up, cleaned up, and were given another chance.

Maybe that is bird-dogging deals once you learn how to evaluate deals, maybe it is cleaning up their flips/rentals, etc.

My wife, poodle and I are very clean people.  

This is my first rental and first turn so I'm trying to nail down the best strategy for standardizing bath design to prevent mildew, reduce risk of damage, and make cleaning easier.After a lot of reading the forums, below is what I'm planning to have done.Main questions for the forums are: 1) am I missing anything?

However, if I turn the unit over I am estimating having to spend at least $15k cleaning the place up (new carpet, paint, misc fixes and updates) if I want to get that rent.

You can't throw it in dumpster unfortunately.You can bag it up to make it easier to carry outside.The constable has to stay there until house is emtied out so you need to have a crew their to carry out the stuff.Then everyone will come pick through it and make a mess.Then you have to haul off the junk and clean up all the debris.

I provide everything except cooking, cleaning and laundry service.  

So 2-3 times as much as a long term tenant (I have to pay utilities and cleaning and such), and it's a lot more work to self-manage, but with a good property manager, you should see at least a 50% increase over Long Term Rental, and you've got someone inside the house at least weekly to make sure it's in good shape, catch little things before they get bad, etc. 

All fields are saved as text so it takes a lot of data cleaning to make it usable, and even then, it seems to run into issues a lot with certain loops.