The minimum rate for labor is $ 85.00 per man hour excluding materials .

Restoring a home to meet the next tenant's expectations is expensive.Because of the above and other considerations, we choose a narrow tenant pool segment well inside the "envelope" of what we call the "Permanent" renter range.

I assume from your question that you don't plan to install a permanent system of some sort (like mini-splits), which do work great, but as @Mike McCarthy stated, they are not cheap.  

And what about the permanent damage? 

I'm not shy at asking frequent "guests" to show me ID that validates they have a permanent address elsewhere.

When the work is finished, we want to finance it into a permanent loan and get cash out to move onto another property (the BRRR strategy).

Discover card offers any military member a permanent 5.9% interest rate for as long as they serve. 

Not trapped permanently but temporarily. 

Too many people think of decisions as permanent.

Lord willing, my family is going to buy a SFH on an FHA 203K with the intention of rehabbing, owner occupying for 6-12 months, refinancing out of the FHA, moving into another place, renting out the rehabbed SFH to students, pulling equity out and Utilizing another FHA203k for a permanent place for my family.