Minor cosmetic improvements.

Minor cosmetic improvements.

Then most large home improvement stores like Lowe’s, Home Depot, etc offer free installation on carpet if you buy from them.  

JD Martin - agreed, you'd have to for any post-rental repairs.And yes, I can see how that would be a really great strategy if you were marketing to investors especially.Do you see any potential tax pitfalls where the IRS could still find you doing business as a ‘dealer’ versus ‘investor’ and you lose the tax preferential status?

As a landlord myself, I appreciate the surplus of investors coming in and improving the neighborhoods here with flipped homes that would otherwise continue being dilapidated properties. 

.), but I have more time available to listen to them versus actually reading them so I've been looking into audiobooks.

They would then know to contact you versus the old PM.This is going off of the very limited information you have given.

You can also fund improvements, like an FHA203k, but you don't have to live there & can do a lot of the work yourself.  

Also, if they are improving the efficiency of most appliances, would the future costs not be deferred by the future savings of such appliances?

I understand the desire to make all the profit and to have a big multiplier by improving the whole area.