I would focus on things like:1.Fresh Paint (Neutral Tone)2.Install Hardwood Floors 3.Updating the Kitchen4.Bathroom Upgrade These upgrades add value to your home!

The floors are hardwood so not too concerned about them being destroyed..any advice thanks

This would be a potential rental once it's fixed up a bit (it also needs work, but mostly cosmetic like refinishing the hardwood floors).

They look at some on line pictures from 3 years ago and decide to bid.At one tax sale bidders were stumbling all over each other to buy a house that had burnt to the ground the weekend before but they didn't know it.At one sale somebody bought an Army bombing range, lots of luck with that one.At one sale a row house's 3 story back wall was in the back yard, people were competing to bid on it obviously never having seen the back of the house.At one sale of a nice suburban house, the owner occupant had removed all the electric wiring cutting holes in walls and ceiling everywhere in the house, because he felt electricity was altering his brain.At one sale roof leaked for maybe as much as 7 years, but the flat roof could not be seen from the ground, hardwood floors were heaved as much as 1 foot and mushrooms were growing in the all to wall carpet. 

One exception is hardwood & tile floors, which we apply the rules below.  

I have no idea what the trend/norm is in El Paso, but if I were going to have a solid surface (i.e. non-carpeted) floor in my bedroom, it would be hardwood/laminate, or polished concrete.

This is for a beautifully-renovated property with gleaming hardwood floors, spotless paint, new deck with composite decking . . . and I am getting a lot of inquiries.  

not to mention the guests who were arriving that same day were delayed because we had to clean the place up the best we could…. only to find out again, that they were also locals, trashed the house again and some stripper left her shoes literally stuck in the hardwood floors… even though Airbnb stepped up and covered all the damage for me, id say it was a necessary learning experience in stress management.

In this situation I would probably fasten a cleat to the wall (a board, ideally hardwood/ something nice or pine will do or use whatever and paint it the color of the wall) and use that to secure the handrail to.

I got a couple quotes from two different hardwood refinishers for my primary residence.