My hot buttons to draw attention away would be crown, fireplace with limestone, fancy light fixtures, upgraded cabinet doors with 30" uppers, stained concrete or laminate floors and stainless appliances and brushed nickel everywhere and two tone paint.

If I'm gutting a house to the studs and fixing plumbing, electric, then new drywall, cabinets, tubs, shower, tile, flooring etc it costs me around $25 sq ft.  

The house had a damaged roof, every drywall, the floors, the AC duct - almost every inch inside was full of mold.

Replace the blinds, and consider replacing the carpet with hard flooring if appropriate.

It's hard to tell just from pictures but $65,000 in rehab seems like an awful lot for that size house, especially as a rental.The house I just did was very similar in size, needed full cosmetics, foundation, new roof, new flooring in every room plus a bunch of plumbing and gas line issues and the rehab was about 30K.

I go into the house to find amazing $5/sq foot flooring throughout the property when I planned to do the $.70/sq foot flooring due to it being a cheaper house ($40k), so I called him and said "hey this really isn't in my budget I can't afford this stuff it is going to blow the budget".He started laughing out loud and said it was meant to be a surprise his buddy that works at a hardware store had someone bail on a special order of this oak bamboo flooring that is $5/Sq foot and he got it for $.99/ Sq foot and he was under budget on the rest of the house so he hooked it up.Just goes to show having a great contractor can make a world of difference.

Be sure to join us at the Houston meetup next week:Houston Meetup - Wednesday, September 10, 2014 (at 3rd Floor bar in Midtown)

.$100k+  There are triple deckers with retail on the first floor and two apartments above and 3,000 sf retail buildings. 

When full legalization hits the state, and marijuana prices drop, there is the potential for these properties in southern and eastern Humboldt to drop through the floor.

Floor and Decor in our area has started carrying these.