He does not want to deal with the headache of tenants cleaning or any thing to do with STR.

Luckily this apartment just needed touch up a cleaning.

A clean, neutral-looking curb gives prospective homebuyers a chance to visualize their own additions/upgrades.

I do however think as things clean up systematically, cashflow will improve and the benefits of low capX exposure in near term and appreciation will work out.

By all means give them a note on how to use all of the appliances (eg clean out the lint trap on the drier after each load, do not use dish soap in a dishwasher, change the furnace filter regularly, etc).

Instead of flipping the house, I should have wholesaled it—cleaning it out and listing it for another investor to take on the renovation.

For example, to get up-to-date property tax data you would need to scrape every county's tax data website (thousands of different websites, data formats, issues, etc...) then aggregate and clean the data.

I just set up my vrbo account and still some finer details about planning the communication, cleaning service, maintenance persons, etc…

Initially, our plan was to fix the drywall leaks, clean out the property, and relist it for a small profit.

The last time I stayed in one, I was charged a large cleaning fee and then met with a list of what to clean prior to us leaving.