You can always add a coat of paint, replace kitchen cabinets, but you can't move a house (well you can, but that's another thread!).

While the units needed new kitchens, baths, flooring, and paint, they were primed and ready for upgrades.

Like vehicles  airplane or equipment for your contracting business .. or real estate with its bonus depreciation but its going down and not as attractive as a few years ago for sure.   

The bill, introduced by Assemblyman Isaac Bryan (D-Los Angeles), would require local governments to update hazard mitigation plans to address extreme heat by January 1, 2028.CAA’s concerns center around the potential for costly retrofitting mandates, particularly for older buildings not equipped for modern HVAC systems.

@Bryant Xavier helped me fix one of my properties after a mold remediation company left the entire kitchen stripped to the studs.

I remodeled the kitchen and the bathrooms and the master bathroom.

Your mechanicals and capital expenditures are a lot more important and more expensive to fix than a pretty kitchen. its better to live in outdated kitchen and have a well kept home with updated mechanicals/roof/hvac than one that looks pretty but will start to crumble5.

Despite the red flags—like the inferior kitchen renovations, an inspection report that didn’t tell the whole story, and a seller who tried to take the appliances that were contracted to convey —I was pot committed.

Added extra value by opening the kitchen up a bit.

Can you demo the bathroom and/or kitchen and have maybe a bid from a contractor to remodel which (I would think) would truly make it unavailable?