Totally upgraded with granite, kitchen, bathrooms, flooring, modern paint colors, light fixtures, door hardware, etc....maybe looking awesome might get you closer to the higher rent you want.   

Leave your wallet at home.

At the end of the day, with the new LE (Loan Estimate) Disclosure and the CD (Closing Disclosure), its harder for someone to get you in the wallet...but it could still be done if you don't review the fees and costs and get an answer to anything you don't understand.Hope this helps

I'm not from NJ but I would suggest you get a labor only contract and buy materials through commercial credit lines (not from banks) from big box stores or your local hardware.

By what i know now from BP, perhaps it wasnt the best choice to empty my wallet but will try to make the most out of it for all education i can get for my success.

Fortunately, I stumbled on the site before I placed my first tenants, and I'm sure the lessons shared here saved me from tons of 'wallet-ache'.

They laughed, and informed him that I worked for them in our True Value Hardware store, and that I did have verifiable income.

Of the 22 guests I’ve had, the second day of their stay , Pay pal sends me a notice that the full amount of their stay is available in my Paypal wallet and I transfer all of it in one day.

A couple INEXPENSIVE things we do for our rentals to give them that "special touch" is carriage door hardware on garage doors and installing Howe Casing around the plate mirrors.

Smaller military requires less hardware.