I plan on staining the kitchen cabinets, adding draw pulls, and laying down new tile.

Have a nice slush fund ready to replace broken windows or nasty beer/puke stained carpet.

My hot buttons to draw attention away would be crown, fireplace with limestone, fancy light fixtures, upgraded cabinet doors with 30" uppers, stained concrete or laminate floors and stainless appliances and brushed nickel everywhere and two tone paint.

My carpet guy can look at a stain and tell whether it's Pepsi or Coke.

In either case, look for water stains/signs of mold.

So here's the situation, carpet in tenants apartment has stains everywhere and since they have a dog I'm assuming it won't come out.

If they are representing a buyer to buy a home, the agent needs to flag a potential mold problem by saying there are dark stains on a wall that should be investigated.In your case, get the "mold" quickly looked at and remediated.

I'm doing level quick and then putting commercial water based stain and sealer.

Looking to stain and pant for the summer.

They existing floors are like new (one owner home) and will be stained a medium to dark brown as well as new hardwood to match existing floors will be installed in the original kitchen to replace the vinyl floors that were original to home.