A nice option might be to do that with no laminate backsplash (straight top back to the wall) and use and inexpensive tile backsplash to dress things up and make it durable.

Dress the part.

Assuming you filed your taxes correctly.....your income is what it is, no way to dress that up.

@Jared StonemanTelling you where to live is like telling you how to dress.

Are they dressed like slobs?

Please advice as this is my first time going through this headache :-( Well 1st thing is all of those details are just irrelevant dressing.

Buy under valued property in decent communities dress the place up live in said property for to years or and sell.

Dress sharp and look better than your competition.

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If you are in an area where folks wear smooth soled boots and dress shoes ok, but if its a sneakers type of an area, look at your floors carefully.I do not think it added anything to the house's value wise.