If I was living alone, I'd take the 1/1 and live for near free, but I'm living with my girlfriend (who needs a big kitchen) so we'll live in the 3/2 and either rent one of the extra rooms or pay a little extra each..

If so, 90% of shops are not lending to first timers and taking on inexperience risk and market cycle risk in one go.

The bathroom is very basic / simple as well as the kitchen, so could perhaps modernize those a bit.

Bought it as a distressed property and completely renovated bathroom kitchen flooring basement landscaping What was the outcome?

Additionally, we decided to throw an additional $20,000 onto the budget in order to reconfigure the hall bath into a master bath, and add a second bath off the kitchen.

A) the new ones have more updated styles (like wood or laminate flooring versus the bushy carpets) and more modern kitchens and bathrooms.

The flip side is that there are more expenses with a multi-family property, such as water/sewer/trash (can be billed back to tenants on new leases), landscaping, maintenance, and capex x4 units (4 air-conditioners, 4 hot water heaters, 4 kitchens, 4-8 bathrooms, etc).

Seriously though, I know white cabinets, dark wood trim, white painted brick (a cardinal sin to paint brick anyway IMO so good riddance there), glass block bathrooms, Tuscan kitchens, brass hardware, reclaimed wood, Edison bulbs, furniture and fixtures made out of black pipe and distressed wood, interior sliding barn doors, pastels, too much granite, chevron patterns, whicker furniture, etc. have all been way overdone recently and are on their way out now, and brightly painted cabinets are in, but beyond that I’m not sure what the “next” design trends are currently.

Before moving out we replaced 75% of the flooring and put in granite countertops and tile backsplash in the kitchen.

My guess is smaller LLs like me are not included in these figures, which skews them wildly since last time I checked well over 70% of rental properties are own by people like me: small timers with fewer than 100 units.So...