Always bring essential tools like camera, flashlight, tape measure, and calculator.Review the exterior for any damages, or things that will need to be fixed.Review the interior of the property checking for things that will need repairs.Look at the kitchen fixtures and check to see if they work properly or need any repairs.Review the HVAC systems, plumbing and electrical work for repairs (if any).Examine the door trim that consists of going around and looking at the trim and seeing what needs to be repaired.Get the property ready to sell.

The place we’re doing now is super old, so I am painting the original trim an off white (not bright white), and still need to figure out a wall color.

The guy that comes in and says he will fix a window and breaks the trim, scars the wall, scuffs up the floor and knocks down the mail box with his ladder.

Every wall is behr accessible beige and I buy it by the 5 gallon bucket, every ceiling is behr white ceiling paint and all trim is either wood grain or behr white.  

I left the tenants in place and started using a portion of their rent to upgrade the exteriors, new roof, new faux stone front, paint stucco, repair gutters, paint trim, and cut down over grown bushes and trees.

. $100 vinyl windows are a great upgrade from single pane combos in a lower priced area, but you wouldn't dream of installing them in a fancy area, there it might be $600 wood windows and it'll likely cost more to install them as well because fancy homes often have lots of fancy woodwork and such, which adds up to much more work to install correctly than on a low priced home with simple trim.

I bet you'd find that white trim and baseboards with a nice neutral color on the walls will make the place pop.

Floors are done:I did the trim work for about a week and touch up paint where I had bumped the trim with my staining pad. 

It makes the house pop when you have the neutral paint, the white trim and the blinds in.Plus, I'd much rather put the blinds in myself then let the tenants put up their own stuff.

I use Sherwin Williams products and used to use their master hide in dover white color. which is a flat contractor grade flat in off white and contrasts nice with white semi-gloss trim. it touches up very easy and blends well..... when as mark stated to same application method is used.