I had it inspected and found that the roofers had swept all of their leftover debris to the center and tiled over it, this caused water to pool and the underlayment to eventually fail.

I believe you are correct that in College Park you can only have one stove, but put a ceramic cooktop or $10 hot plate and a microwave with convection oven or toaster oven in the basement "wet bar" and viola!

Here is the flooring we went with: Pergo San MarcoThe texture and coloring is forgiving and the durability for water allowed us to carry the flooring into the bathroom, which saved us on cost of tiling!

Currently, I have a few smaller projects on a couple of houses: carpeting/tiling floors, painting walls that contain LED paint, installing A/C and heating system, installing light fixtures, installing appliances, making sure electrical wiring is safe, installing recessed lighting, insulating/waterproofing medium size room in the basement.

If i am sure that I will go the Rent strategy, I would spend a bit more to put in more durable finishes such as tile flooring potentially higher grade countertops and casework, etc, compared to flipping.

All tile floors setup to be very low maintenance. old bIIldIng but most of the major work/ repairs have been done.Building is very near a redeveloping area, in 5-10 years should be a much nicer area of downtown, but they will still be low income apts.Its unique in the fact that it is surrounded by new buildings so it is its own ecosystem, if that makes sense.. problem is that ubless you dropped serious money into it its always going to just be what it is. low income. very small spaces, would have to empty entire building drop 100s of thousands on it and re rent with new image..

Has anyone had any experience w/ DYI Bathtub and tile refinishing?   

@John LeavelleThanks John, I literally just put a couple numbers in that were low because I've completely made the property new from the roof all the way to the exterior siding, paint, unit 1 & 2 now have new carpet, cabinets, granite counter tops and tile flooring.

Unfortunately, you appear to be flipping. 2- What I would have done in this case is keep the mantel, sand it down, restore it, and tile the base and inside areas of the mantel.

Everywhere else gets either vinyl or tile because they are higher traffic.