I heard you can depreciate the appliances and flooring on a faster depreciation schedule to recoup your basis faster. 

I have a couple rental properties and consider myself pretty handy in terms of installing flooring, minor electrical, painting, etc and I enjoy coordinating repairs and getting out there and meeting people that do this type of work.

The forced appreciation comes in here because rents were lagging the market at both properties, and we are also doing some small upgrades that drive rents, like replacing worn carpets with vinyl laminate wood-grain flooring rather than new carpets.  

Those wood pattern floor tiles, bigger window, & shower tiles really open up the space. 

It looks great thanks to my wife's color choices.Current issue is the amount of paint and junk the crew got on the wood floors.  

(One time a child started drawing pictures on the kitchen floor with a marker pen during the showing and the parent did nothing!  

She says the house needs paint, flooring, an new deck, and possible mold remediation.

If I needed to redo some of the flooring in the house, repaint, and update some of the fixtures, would you have any idea of how to go about estimating that kind of cost.

Last rental I followed my usual protocol of info overkill on a Craigslist ad: lots of pics including building exterior and window view, a drawn floor plan with dimensions, and lots of description and saying we credit check.

There are very few upgrades in the house with the exception of a few things like wood floors.