Broken window, stained carpet, significant cleaning of things like maggot infested garage, rotting food in warm fridge, urine in corners of carpet. 

Stay neutral, 3 beds/2 baths, less yardwork, I avoid pools to rent out afterwards.If you don't necessarily care if it's a mil family...throw all that out the window. lol.  

I know we will need to hire for putting in a door, window and framing etc.

First unit was also recently renovated in 2014 with a new paint, appliance, roof, windows, etc.

I'm not replacing window but did repair the foundation.  

This also means only 2 kitchens, bathrooms, waterheaters, etc and not 4! 

@Josh Shaughnessy Apart from paint and basic updates, What I personally have found that gives me a great return on investment is updating anything to do with the kitchen, especially the appliances.

Thus, you can have many mortgage related credit pulls within a 30-day window and only the first pull will negatively impact your scores.

The house in Idaho was a 3-bath 4 bedroom and the tenant destroyed every plumbing fixture, the kitchen cabinets, granite counter tops, stove, refrigerator, dishwasher, washer, dryer and the $32,000 cost was with my personally doing the work with one employee.So!!!

We then get the materials quote from our parts distributor, they provide a limited time frame as copper is a commodity, and other materials fluctuate.I used to get 30-60 day windows, in this market 15 days max.