Just a little paint, plumbing, carpet cleaning, and a couple of new (used) appliances.

After quite a bit of dragging my heals (I had finally gotten a job again and was learning the new job), I hired some people to come clean out the home and cut the grass/weeds.

New floors, paint, bathroom.

I get it that it sucks from a tenant's point of view when a disaster or other issue inflates the market price - but unless you're going to have artificial price floors, you cannot have artificial price ceilings.

Cleaning what what we’ve got.

@Bjorik Mutize the previous owners had done a hardcore rehab within the last year, including new tile floors, cabinets, appliances, etc.

She then began to claim items that were not part of the contract that she wanted done (ie. repaint her interior, fix her floors, and repaint an addition). 

He's helped us get everything sorted out this year and cleaned up from our previous CPA who didn't really know what to do with these rentals.

Estimating costs for new phone floor/elevation, accounting for unknown costs/mistakes

Estimating all costs for new floor plan and elevation is not easy.