The home also had a small lien.Listened, offered a solution and everyone walked away happy.

if there's a market you're considering investing in, you should go there in person, walk around, go to meetups, take people out for coffee and ask them questions. 

After that, I got a large dog crate and set it up in the master walk-in closet. 

There is no given answer here, because the whole property needs to be relatively consistent.Kitchens and baths are the common answer, but if they are passable and you choose to invest in them anyways at the expense of peeling paint (or off putting exterior color) and overgrown landscaping, the appraiser and tenant will be walking up with a bad taste in their mouth, thereby not valuing the interior work you have done.But think about the general flow of someone looking to rent: more bedrooms will typically dictate more rent.  

An inspection contingency allows you to walk away with escrow but not recoup expenses.Best...

Happy to look at properties or do video walk throughs.

First, the tenants signed a legally binding contract and do not just get to walk away on a whim.

I golf, play a lot of softball, run most days, walk my dogs, do some real estate projects.... stuff like that. 

He walked away from his business letting his best friend take it over.  

The future buyer might have their own engineer walk when you flip it but if it's done right you'll be fine