We were originally about $10K higher, but were able to realize savings on interior/exterior painting. 

When I hauled away all the junk in the basement, painted its walls, and had the floor professionally scrubbed, lo and behold, the effective doubling of the house's useable square footage and the potential to create additional living space down there (maybe even a separate living area) became a nice selling feature to prospective buyers.

What kind of paint do you use in the bedrooms of your rentals?

I've quietly viewed enough churches and paintings already; my goal was to break the insurmountable barrier of politeness and actually make contact with regular people, people who aren't trained in the hospitality-industry art of being efficient and polite. 

Seems folks think you're going to paint a master piece with a paint by numbers set.One might know how to pick a guitar but they won't be successful in the music business unless they study music.What is it that attracts real estate zombies, is it the smell of money?

While you can put lipstick on, change carpet and paint color, floor plans become dated, boring, less functional, if you begin in a 75 year old property, you'll have a 100+ year old property in an old section by the time you get it paid off.

Let the games begin...less than 3 weeks ago I moved out of my private residence to put it up for rent, and I have already emptied it out, cleaned it, painted the interior that needed to be painted, and even hooked it up to county water (was on well, and was very hard water)!

I don't think I want to be a long distance landlord, and this thread doesn't seem to paint a very good picture of 757 property managers.

The renovations all look good, the same paint colors, the same wood floors, the same 5' kitchens (which I imagine is common for turnkey providers).  

If this doesn't paint a picture of the level of professionalism and service from SBL, then I don't know what would.Where is the apology from SBL for all of this?