I charge a redecorating fee of $250.00 if they stay less than 6 months.

Foundation repair, redecorating the interior, and photography. 

The people you are learning about have already taken all the steps to put their house on the market - re-decorating, fixing problems and all the cleaning up needed to be ready for showing.You can do a mail campaign to get in touch with people who share characteristics with homeowners ready to sell. 

Based upon the similar property that came on the market and has been redecorated, the target rents are now $650 instead of $700/month.

Another is  Owners with Low Financial Stability Scores (FSS).Consider focusing your letter or post card on the recipients and mention benefits of working with you rather then the traditional realtor.Selling your home can be easier than you think.No need to fix it up or re-decorate.

That's just the tile, not the labor, mortar, grout, and backerboard, and fasteners... just figure out your floor area and start multiplying as a single example of how expensive these things can get)that seems waaaay more extreme than anything I was planning...I was just wanting to pretty much re-decorate the house...lolMAYBE open up one wall... but definitely not tearing a roof off, or changing the foundation.

Nope, the only thing I saw were the batteries, that could be on you under your lease, they can't redecorate and charge you to install anything!

Almost all his savings were wiped out.This included money for his family, two schoolgoing children and holiday plans.Mr Kenneth Ng, 43, never imagined himself to be a real estate investor, but after listening to a speaker at a property seminar, he invested almost all of his $80,000 savings.The supply chain executive, who earns $8,000 a month, bought a "fixer-upper" in the US city of Memphis for US$55,000 (S$74,500).A fixer-upper is real estate slang for a property that needs maintenance work, such as redecoration, reconstruction or redesign, before it can be lived in.That was in 2013.Mr Ng never got the promised returns.The property guru who made the sales pitch?

The plan with this property was to make some significant common area improvements (roofs, exterior paint, resurface the pool, add an outdoor kitchen, outdoor TV, redecorate the clubhouse, completely renovate the fitness center, and upgrade the landscaping.

We changed some furniture and did some minor redecorating.