I would focus on exterior appearance through siding choice, landscaping, and as everyone else has already mentioned, putting more focus on the entry. $1500 in landscaping would be much more well spent than paying someone to come and frame new openings and drywall/paint work.I will however say that I'm not a huge fan of your choice of colors for the new siding.

It is a classic choice and you have a lot of options (standard, brick, herringbone, etc).

@Mike Lambert I know…unfortunately we had no choice. 

TenantCloud worked well for me but getting everything to an online version that works, Buildium seem to be a perfect choice for me.

The choice is between:A - Making a one time profit, in 2 months, of about $50k, or...B - assuming no more than $400/month in Cash flow, getting about $5k/year in cash flow...which means his option will take you 10 years of perfect cash flow to equal the immediate profit of flipping this....and, think of what you can do with $50k in profit (and the cash you recovered...your initial costs). 

This actually gives you potentially unlimited buying power.If you have 75k, you have a choice of spending it as 3 20%'s of purchase, with each property worth 125k, or you can use it on one 100k property that costs 75k.  1)  Spend it on 3 properties, and the cash is gone...never to be seen again unless you flip the property...which means no more cash flow.  

All of that is of course if long term hold is your best choice for real estate investing.

In my research, it seems there are not that many options in each market, so maybe you don't have much of a choice.

If all three of those are correct then the question is a lifestyle choice: do you want to do renovations before you have kids or after you have had kids.You will most likely not be able to time the market, but you do have some control over when to have kids and when you want to do renovations.To be clear, my comments are about buying a HOME, not necessarily an investment.

Some designers are not willing to compromise their artistic design choices in order to compensate for your budget.