Alternately tell your new tenants it is available November 1st but you will be in doing some painting and repair work after they move in.

Upfront I definitely need to paint, change out a couple light fixtures, and will be doing all the work ourselves, but other than that it is move in ready.

@Jared Skov I'm in the South.  3 units need carpet and and all 4 could use fresh paint. 

@Gaurav K. if you choose electric make sure your building is insulated very well otherwise your electric bills may be very high for your tenants which may cause more turnover.

If we're just preapproving for vanilla commodity Fannie Mae nothing special & no "creative financing" scenario, I'll let my clients look out of state and when/if they actually go under contract, I'll forward their paperwork to the local-to-the-real-estate lender of their choosing as a courtesy. 

This did save money, but it added a lot of time because I bought clearance cabinets, so then had to drive around to make a full set, then I had to paint them...I would have saved time and effort by just buying RTA or mid range cabinets.Time is Money!

Turning off credit card payments is unfortunately no protection from a tenant who chooses to lie and steal or make payments with funds that aren’t theirs.Second, Cozy doesn't do anything specifically to "allow" a dispute – in fact, all financial transactions across industries are subject to the same fraud and dispute laws – so it's not unique to Cozy.

It will also need a new exterior paint job and furnace soon, and the plumbing is galvanized so it will eventually fail too.

Proper paint and paint techniques can do wonders for cheap

Is there a ballpark sq ft cost to do a simple clean, paint, carpet etc?