If you intend to rent the property out after you live there for some time (fha is a year I believe), I’d focus on items that are going to attract the biggest pool of renters when doing repairs.

A few specific questions I have are listed below:1.

Even ballpark figures can guide me in the right direction.Referrals: If you've had positive experiences with contractors in Columbus who specialize in any of these areas, I would greatly appreciate your recommendations.Your insights and assistance will be invaluable.You could fix a lot of this stuff with a few hours and a couple hundred bucks Lowes tripThere are also a lot of items I would not doDid you speak to your inspector about these items yet?

You need a spreadsheet that covers every possible budgetary item along with allowances for the finishes.

If they are fighting you on this minor item that should be standard practice, I would assume they will be a nightmare tenant and will be difficult in most scenarios.

In either case, if you call the employee listed on her voucher or annual renewal notice, they're usually happy to run the numbers ahead of time and let you know exactly what will happen, though they obviously wont encourage you to raise the rent over the limit even if they wont actually reject the increase. 

It is advertised as having a platform that you can pull lists of note holders in any area plus a cheap skip trace feature. 

I found a nice one listed 475k with on active unit at 950/mth and 8 empty units in need of repair.

Don't trust market listings at all.

I did not buy a list from them.