Without knowing the area really well it is hard to know how much of that is the cost of land baked in.

Might be overkill but it keeps things fresh and clean. 3 sets of everything, that way there is always a clean backup on site, while one could be at the off site laundry.

I get fresh leads everyday by posting quality, non commercial contemporary content on a daily basis.  

Now in our timber deals with that demographic it could take months and a lot of fresh and smoked salmon and if it was elk season some fresh steaks and jerky would win the day.. this is the PNW of course :)  I also got a lot of timber deals by advertising on the Christian radio station..

I would start by removing carpet and cleaning what you can, paint and then ozone as long as it takes.Ozone is cheap, but with fresh paint and new carpet it might ad up to $10k.

The recession is still in fresh in the eyes of hoteliers.

Do the walls need a good cleaning or a fresh coat of paint? 

Simple question.3 options.1.Keep Garage2.Renovate garage into a small "man cave"3.Take garage down and lay fresh grass for backyard.

I had a similar experience with birds nesting inside my fresh air exchange vent to an HVAC system.   

I am well aware that nobody who bought into this was thinking in purely analytical terms when they bought it -- there was a national media figure freshly retired from a network a lot of people trust at the head of it, waving them in.