We rebranded, but kept the employees, furniture, equipment, fixtures, etc.

Furniture? 

One night mom and dad where having a few beers outside their bedroom patio like they always did on the weekends, dad needed to use the restroom but the patio doors had somehow locked so dad went around the house and used his key to open the front door, as he walked towards his bedroom he heard a man's voice coming out of his daughters bedroom, he walked towards the room and quietly opened the door, there he saw his roommate molesting his 8 year old daughter.

Despite the home not being in terrible condition, they left a bunch of trash and old furniture behind.We knew that if we could keep the renovation budget at $40k, we could keep the sales price under $300k.

I would also look to "stage" it with your furniture by minimizing and decluttering.

You have considerably less wall space, and trying to fill furniture into that one big space is often awkward resulting in a lot of wasted space that does not really do anything.And while these open floorplans are often promoted as "family friendly" I have come to the conclusion that they are a double edged sword in that respect.

I mostly want to understand how do I go about figuring out the demand / vacancy rates for MTR before investing in furniture etc on my property.

Hope Village has patio homes for Seniors they are 500k to purchase a 40% interest and then the HOA is 1500.00 a month..

No answer on the mysterious phone number I had; no answer at the door; junk mail building up on the patio; property was clearly vacant.

Furniture is already there.