If it's all over the floor throughout the duplex then you can get a mop with a sctoch/brillow pad and just lightly buff the surface.It's worked for me on my rentals in past and I just use water with a couple drops of liquid dish soap

Strip off wall paper-nuetral paint.Master bath you maybe able to get away with a good cleaning and nice tile floors, master vanity looks okay- maybe more lighting in the bathroom- you could do something about bathroom cabinets- fresh coat of paint.Bathroom small- some caulking, new shower head blah blah- Remove all wall paper- paint nuetral, you may wanna change that soap holder too.

Also make certain your profit does not leave them with tax or other deficiency - if your profit is on the back of the homeowner - watch out for the local prosecutor.With all of that said, I got out of Short Sale flips because I could not get title - is there title for these in CA still?

I also make all my own soap, using lye (a key ingredient in making meth) which smells terrible (albeit only for a few minutes).

Our retirement planning should be based on assets that produce cash and appreciate in value, not securities that ebb and flow with the 30+ forces we have no control over in the market.Kevin Kaczmarek stepping off his soap box.

It doesn't have to have all your furniture, just a bed a table and a chair will do, a place to cook and prepare food, food stored, a change of clothes in the closet, soap in the bathroom with a towel.

Ahem Let me step onto my soap box . . .You MUST count the cost of management.

So far: new septic, 5 new hot water heaters, all new towels and linens, new soaps/shampoos, lotion etc.

(I will now step off the soap box. 

Someday soon good old Clay's gonna learn to love soap challenges in prison showers.