The tenant fails to pay their last month's rent and leaves the place needing new flooring and paint.

Interior remodel, paint, floor, appliances, fixtures, etc Lessons learned?

(i.e. initial decorating and painting, bookings, rate structures, marketing, bookkeeping housekeeping, etc)? 

Finally, I used the Thumbtack app, and I made more progress in six days than I did in the past 75 days on painting, flooring, lighting install, HVAC repairs.I currently use apartments.com for my automatic rent collection, so that system is helpful. 

I started by patching about a dozen (not small) holes in the wall, re-doing all the drywall in the bathroom, installing new shower plumbing, putting in recessed lighting, installing seamless LVP throughout, texturing/priming/painting all walls, installing new 5 inch pine baseboard all around, and installing custom bathroom vanity/pantry cabinets, and hanging new custom shaker doors in the kitchen.

Patch it and paint it.

Painting this future image will connect your investment decisions with your goals.

The aluminum wiring was on my to do list because I had to rip it out of my current home when we remodeled, which is from 1974.

A quick internet search led to quite a few complaints by people claiming to be ripped off, had deals fall through, or simply getting the run around each time. 

We will be installing new cabinets, floring ,paint etc.