This can help your transaction run more smoothly if everyone on your team (lender, agent, attorney, inspector) have worked together on 100 transactions. 

A lot of the wholesalers that I work with prefer double closings to assignments just to keep the wheels moving smoothly. 

You can tell the difference by the smoothness of quartz

Thanks,Devon I did that type of thing on a couple of properties and it went fairly smoothly.

Again patching them is not a highly skilled task , however achieving a smooth finish needs skill , but a reasonable handy person can learn fairly easily .

Whenever you are buying a property out of state you should do a few things to ensure it's as smooth as possible.

If the switch is white you can just spray paint them.It depends on what kind of rental you have with what they expect.We have small old water stains from previous leaks on the ceiling when tenant moves out.I buy a spray can of Kilz for 5 bucks and usually last about for 2 of my apartment units hitting spots.You can't tell afterwords with the ceiling and it looks great.It's cheaper than scraping popcorn and trying to match or scraping the whole ceiling and a flat ceiling because it is old showing all imperfections if you just scrape and paint it.On the light switches I agree it works to replace them all but in older apartment buildings I try not to do that because what I have found is the wiring in behind is cut short or has too much excess crammed in.So if the wiring was all clean and the right slack from out of the box it would be easy to replace.I have found that some go smoothly and the others are a bit of a pain to change out making adjustments.The Kilz for the ceiling I only do that on non-active leaks where the drywall still has integrity to it and is not sagging.If it is sagging I cut out and put a patch in and then popcorn over it after priming to stick.All my tenants want is a nice,clean place to live.If you have a high end tenants paying premium bucks then finish level and what the tenant expects will change.In mine replacing everything will only net me maybe another 30 bucks a month in rent and the thousands spent will take 5 to 8 years to recover if everything goes perfectly with each unit.

I have an applicant with a violent criminal offense in the fairly recent past that I want to deny on that basis, and I want to do it legally and smoothly.

This is great news because my last interaction with these tenants was not as smooth as I would have liked.

I'd say a first deal that has issues is more valuable than one that goes smoothly.