I can definitely say that while the bigger fire we had was a pain... it actually worked out really well... in the end we had a much improved property, and we stepped in and did as much of the work we could do ourselves that the insurance company was compensating us at  'retail' rates for... like painting, and replacing cabinets, and other simple tasks.  

Renovation, renovated the kitchen, bedrooms by adding closet doors, LVP flooring through the house, new paint.

So with only a majority of investor buyers, your sold price will be lower.You can sell it occupied, but if lease ends soon, I would suggest making it vacant, painting interior, cleaning it, etc. this will get you the most money.I have connections for all those servicesThis year will be like the last two years.

My cousin's fiance has a painting business and has done numerous jobs for family members over the years.

Updated the bathrooms, fresh paint and updated light fixtures.

Purchase price: $235,900 Cash invested: $70,000 Sale price: $399,000 Complete Renovation: deleting walls to open up kitchen into living room, new kitchen, cabinets, appliances, custom doors, floors, trim, paint, new laundry room, new powder room, new master bathroom, custom woodworking, exterior farmhouse paint, all new interior paint, etc.

Updating all the mechanicals, refinishing the wood flooring, adding a 1/2 bath, flipping the kitchen from the existing kitchen into the dining room to make it more usable, updating the full bath, and adding a garage as well as painting throughout.

However, the market has changed in that time period with interest rates changing and homes staying on the market longer and longer.You mentioned the big ticket mechanical items for the house, but it sounds like paint, flooring, kitchen and bathrooms we're mostly untouched.

Added some sweat equity to it as well with new paint, landscaping and other projects.

I would say they made a lot of promises that they haven’t kept and paint a very unrealistic picture with an extremely high pressure sales scheme that does a disservice to the vast majority of their students.