Also, I don’t know if it matters but he had a very beautiful black dog and after he moved out, the place was very filthy.

BUT with 0 additional work or cost.Consider my leads..OK so these leads are coming in daily at a speed I can not keep up with.

The corner looks beautiful. 

I am trying to keep costs low, so we are just keeping it the natural oak color and hopefully it turns out beautiful!

Those can be very costly mistakes but very educational ones as well.The beautiful aspect of real estate investment is that there are multiple strategies that can work for each investor's situation; there is no "one right way."

Focus on function over beauty because there's a chance it will move a lot and tenants generally treat things rougher than you would.

It varies greatly  My parents live in a huge & beautiful home in the ‘Shelby Forest’ area (SF backs up to Meeman-Shelby State Park & there are many homes in Shelby Forest’s extended area up the bluff towards Tipton County that are close to million dollar homes).  

The property is in Chino CA 91710 - definitely not a ritzy Beverly hills place, but has potential to be beautiful.

Now we have a beautiful lake cottage that is sitting.  

That's the beautiful part about it.