We're not all fighting over the same little patch of turf- that's one of the things that makes the sharing of info so easy.

I still netted $27k on the sale but I admit that I did a lot of the labor myself since demo is fun and it's not that hard to paint and patch some holes.

. - One extreme direction is warzone investing, crazy cap rates and max cashflow, for dirt cheap homes, but you need that cashflow to patch the bullet holes and pay for all the evictions. - Then there's the middle, where most REI activity is done.

Use semi-gloss paint, never flat and use muted, off-white colors that do not fade so patching, rather than painting entire areas can be done.These are some basic steps that can be easily identified.

A new buyer who doesn't know will often think that your house will need a complete overhaul of its foundation so make sure you seal the little cracks and patch up the missing chunks.

Drywall is cheap and it doesn't cost much to patch it if/when you get holes.  

You can only get repair bids from NACA contractors, and their bids are ridiculous ($500 to patch a hole in a wall!)...

It's come a bit off its piles and needs a jack and pack, 108mm slope across the whole property, 8mm less and the insurer would have patched it up at the time.We have some reasonable estimates (I will be getting some solid quotes in the next few months) and we are confident that we have enough contacts to get it done.After that it gets a bit murkier, The property hasn't seen much of an update in the last 20-30 years so theres a lot that we COULD do, if we had a more solid idea of how the demand is for properties on TC3 land (i'm pretty new to this, I wasn't expecting to buy a house for a decade so I have been on a bit of a crash course the last few months).

Every time you patch the drywall it looks worse.

We stayed in town and cleaned, hired a painter because the one she hired "touched up" by leaving patches of another color all over the walls, drove a trunk load full of food (open cereal boxes, pasta, food left in fridge, etc.) then another full of trash to a dumpster, replaced a missing bedroom door that never got deducted from the security deposit of the last tenant.