I dislike the verbiage you're referring to as 'turn-key'...Good: * Install new cabinetry per attached layout using XXX manufacturer and YYY finish* Install grade 2 granite and 11" overhang on bar* Install backsplash, XXX tile, YYY pattern* Install grade 2 oak flooring, stain and 2 coats polyurethane, standard non-mix minwax color* Remove wall between kitchen and dining room PER ATTACHED FLOOR PLAN* Install new Frigidaire Gallery Stainless Steel appliance package (Range, Microwave, Dishwasher, Refrigerator)* Install XXX Kitchen Faucet* Install 3/4HP Badger Disposal* Rough and Trim out for electrical and plumbing to code PER ATTACHED PLAN* 20 yard dumpster* Labor for demolition per plan* PortapottyTotal: $50,000Bad: * Renovate kitchen and remove wall between kitchen and dining room as discussed* Install new appliance package* Install new fixturesTotal: $50,000Equally bad -* Install new cabinetry per attached layout using XXX manufacturer and YYY finish* Install grade 2 granite and 11" overhang on bar* Install backsplash, XXX tile, YYY pattern* Install grade 2 oak flooring, stain and 2 coats polyurethane, standard non-mix minwax color* Remove wall between kitchen and dining room PER ATTACHED FLOOR PLAN* Install new Frigidaire Gallery Stainless Steel appliance package (Range, Microwave, Dishwasher, Refrigerator)* Install XXX Kitchen Faucet* Install 3/4HP Badger Disposal* Rough and Trim out for electrical and plumbing to code PER ATTACHED PLAN* 20 yard dumpster* Labor for demolition per plan* Portapotty* Use 10x 2x4x8, 10lf 12x4 LVL, 1x5lb box framing nails, 15lf 3/4" CPVC pipe, 1 bottle CPVC glue, 4x 45deg CVPC fittings, etc...

As of today, we have merely purchased the home and refreshed the interior with new paint, trim, and fixtures. 

Pay them appropriately, and keep it trim otherwise.

And, the base trim always looks too bulky.

You can almost guarantee that you will have to touch up on paint and trim pretty much after every tenant.

I put in about $6K for new flooring and trim, I painted it and it sold within a few weeks. 

In the deal I am working on I would act as the general as well as provide some of the labor that I am competent in such as dirt work, landscaping, cabinets and trim.

And the advantage on the cheaper homes is the trim level can be much lower and still be marketable .

When installing check if the walls have already wood trim that can be removed and then lowered and reinstalled over new flooring otherwise you will want to buy and add trim which is expensive. 

My mom about 2 to 3 years ago had a knee replacement by one of the best knee surgeons in the United States.She was one of the last Medicare patients they accepted.The surgeon was telling us that Medicare wanted to stipulate WHAT PARTS they wanted them using in surgery or they wouldn't pay.Medicare wanted to start using cheap crap from Chine where they get a discount and put inferior parts in with high failure rates.The surgeon dropped Medicare and said they didn't want to put in a bad part and get sued or blamed later for revisions.I agree completely and do not blame them.The best doctors being forced to use crap from Medicare or they won't pay is awful.It's about the money and not about the quality of care.I took my mother-in-law in for a hospital appointment the other day.All the doctors and receptionist I talked to did not want the Health Care bill passed.The Government oversight already is too much and the forms too cumbersome.Regardless of political party affiliation more government control and forms increases cost,time,and tax pay burden.If our Government believes so much in the health care provided under this bill they THEY should lose the health care packages they have and move to this.I pay cash when I go in and ask for a discount.I do not have health insurance by choice.I do not want to fill out ten thousand forms and be told my only plan provider is 1 hour away from me.I want to choose who I go to and what kind of quality care I receive.Paying cash I can do that.If anyone believes businesses will pick up the tab for extra health Insurance cost I have some Ice Igloos to sell you in Hawaii.If a business owner makes 100k profit a year they will not now make 80k a year and take from their family to prop up employees.They will trim the fat.I can see many more people using virtual assistants so that there is no paying of these costs.Just like Obama did this credit card bill that capped fees.All they did was raise rates for the good borrowers.The credit card companies sure didn't take the hit.I shouldn't have to pay for the governments short comings.It should come out of their pay for passing the laws and acts that led to these problems.All the government does is kick the can down the road and borrow from one place to prop up another.I don't believe this law will do anything except create more government bloat.