Common fees will include a set-up fee, leasing fee for each turnover or a lease renewal fee, marking up maintenance, retaining late fees, and more.

You  also have to add insulation to the walls and roof.

A kicked hole in a wall will be 3 times that. 

I also have a Tesla and installed a wall charger at my house-hack in San Jose, which I plan to offer as a perk when I move to the next one. 

We painted every wall, finished new flooring, repaired drywall, all new doors, all new kitchen, partially new bathrooms, replaced a torn out support wall with a header, All new trim, updated HVAC, cleaned up yard / landscaping, removed all trash

Second, we created a barrier between the wall and fence with plants and soundproofing mats.

If the market tanks, I would expect that West side neighborhoods like Taylorsville and WVC will get hit the hardest, and the more expensive East side neighborhoods will retain their value better (again, just a hunch).Hopefully that helps.

Your plan to kick-start your buy-and-hold portfolio by converting your current home into a rental once you upsize allows you to retain your advantageous owner-occupied financing on the home. 

Two properties can be exactly the same as far as an algorithm is concerned, but one is a true experience and the other is four walls with a roof and a lumpy mattress. 

Was faced with either patching up old bathroom plumbing/tile walls vs updating the entire bathroom(which allowed me to update plumbing for 2 other bathrooms too).