@Tony S. Have

You could also ask for a set amount of funds to be placed into escrow (for a set amount of weeks after closing) to ensure the repair(s) have been made properly. 

You could do spray foam insulation if  it gets cold in the house.

Shaving off equity in their pockets and passing the deal on while shorting the owner is NOT a service.

The Shaved Duck is a sit down BBQ place, nice for dinner, but it's as good as any of the others.

We even spray foam insulate the attics and walls if we are doing full renovations.  

I'm not nearly as experienced as James and don't have any investments in Parma but I do live in Parma and have looked for property in Parma and most rents I've seen for 3/2's have ranged anywhere from $900-$1,050 depending on location and property.

If it were local I probably could have shaved a week off but I had the extra week buffered into my estimates and it didn't affect the renting out of the property so all worked out well.  

After removing ~5 tonnes of lath & plaster; replacing some structure damaged in a chimney fire in the building's past {estimated to have occurred prior to the 1930s before electricity was installed}; reconfiguring the space layout in half od the house {(re)moving 5 walls}; fixing additional structural and electrical faux pas by the prior owners and levelling the floors, we added ~3 inches of spray foam insulation (R18) into the wall cavities; rewired the house; and replaced all the original single pane, built in-place windows with Energy Star rated, triple-pane, windows {with glazings specific to their orientation}.We put the electric base-board heaters back in-place; by code we need to retain them as an auxiliary heat source to the ductless mini-split heat pump (2 heads) being installed next week.We are now finishing painting and trim.

Buy reasonable beds and then use Groupon to buy memory foam toppers.