My floor guy sands and poly's my 3/1 cottages for about $600 with him providing all the materials, and it always looks great.Love solid wood floors, can't beat the combination of aesthetics and durability.

Their dry poop will burn and smoldor just like a wick or firecracker punk stick because of the wood in it.

Yep, Punk rock and the Continential Club are gone.  

Despite misconceptions based on their aesthetic tastes, hipsters tend to be well educated and often have liberal arts degrees, or degrees in maths and sciences, which also require certain creative analytical thinking abilities."

Not only will it be aesthetically awesome, I'm hoping it outlasts asphalt shingles by 3 fold.

The other items can be deferred but should eventually be addressed for aesthetic and safety reasons.

A modern kitchen with clean, contemporary aesthetics absolutely will increase rent.

A fence will help deter some and also help with the aesthetics of the property.  

Final thought would be if it's primarily aesthetic, look at mortaring thin pavers over the stairs.

In short I was a punk.