It can backfire, however.After Hurricane Ike, some small towns said the homes couldn't be replaced so instead the owners patched up some of the worst looking homes you'd ever seen. 

Do not must patch the roof, REPLACE IT, do not just " tune up" the furnace replace it etc.

I will just mention that the storage on Patch St. was broken into this fall.

Keep patching and tarring until you can't - then replace. 

Should I just patch the nail holes and patch paint them? 

It seems that every decade or so we hit a patch where financing gets tough and sales stall for a while because people are having trouble processing mortgages. 

All they did was cosmetic and patched the roof.

If you're interested in the crowdfunding route, the top ranked sites that focus mostly on hard money loans are: Patch of Land, Peerstreet & Peerrealty.

A couple of minor spats between rivals in the same patch but nothing too exciting.

(water is your worst enemy outside of vacancy)A: "funny you ask, as you can see the wall is patched but not finished or painted from a leak that happened upstairs, it's been that way for... 6-7 months."