The house is owned free and clear and needs roughly 10-15,000$ worth of repair mainly new kitchen appliances, siding, and both bathrooms updated and remodeled.

If they are old wooden windows that will need to be upgraded to vinyl, keep in mind that will increase your repair price quite a bit.The kitchen is the single most important room of a rehab.

(Additional bathroom, bedroom and expand the kitchen/dinning), Basically "blow out" the back of the house.

It will need about $35K to fix (new siding, plumbing, kitchen, all interior paint, misc. repairs).

Things like, "I was using the microwave and the toaster at the same time and now the outlets in my kitchen don't work.

Saying I don't want the liability is not a valid reason, if you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen.

Could be higher if it's been updated, could be much, much lower if it's paneling on the walls, cracked plaster ceilings with a kitchen from the 50's and HVAC and electric to match.

Put them inside, on kitchen chairs, with the light on.

I pay $300 more per month in rent for my little bachelor apartment (meaning no kitchen) then I did on my mortgage on my 3-story house in Atlanta :)

(I would not, for example, rent to someone like myself, and it's actually a fear of mine that I would have a difficult time renting if I ever sold my house.)