#2 - Larger 5-bedroom renovation into a sweet rental home Before Pictures (Zillow Link)After Pictures (Airbnb Link)These investors took something that was very boring and extremely residential-looking and transformed it into a cozy retreat for travelers with highlights being adding wood paneling, kitchen renovation, new furniture throughout, beautiful outdoor space with added hot tub and fire pit spaces for guests to hangout and an exciting game room space to occupy guests for hours. 

A new kitchen on the first floor.

For example, on what I thought was a relatively simple project in a bathroom reno which was fully gutted down to the studs already, I had more than one quote for over $7k to run pex supply lines and rough in a shower drain and toilet drain off of an existing main stack, all of which ended up costing me about $200 in pex lines, PVC fittings, and sawzall blades.If you need any hardwood flooring repaired, patched, or refinished, you can't beat Dave's Hardwood Flooring out of Blaine - $3k spent with them fully brought one of my duplex unit's original 100+ year old maple floors back to life.If you're putting in any stone counters in your kitchens or for bathroom vanities, Twin City Discount Granite have been awesome to work with, and consistently have the best pricing I've found in the area on fully installed granite and quartz.I also have a great drywall guy, as well as a really good carpet install guy - feel free to DM me if you want either of their contact info!

I want to minimally renovate the master bathroom and kitchen in the condo we just bought. 1.

I work with first time real estate flippers/investors.

And definitely go to Goodwill for all your kitchen utensils and small appliances, you'll save a fortune if you do that. 

They can help you avoid some of the first timer pitfalls and give good guidance along the way.

I did a take home mold test and found more mold in the kitchen and the vent in the foyer.

2. can i pursue this opportunity and fix it to add value as a first timer?

For example my simple spruce up would be, renno bathroom, and kitchen, paint, and redo carpet upstairs.But if i think real deep into what I could do to make it a STUNNER then I think, knock down walls, create more open/broken floor plan, add central air, possibly do an addition to add a 3rd bedroom and second bath.So when you could do ANYTHING .. how do you draw the line of what you should do?