I’m trying to get a ballpark idea about the costs to remodel.

Always after Kitchen remodel and painting. 

Just look at it as any other type of remodel.

Right now my issue is a split bathroom ( if you guys know the technical term for what I am about to describe please enlighten me), it is split as in heavily compartmentalized--- Sink--wall-Shower--wall--Toilet.

I think the remodel looks well done, but you're not doing yourself any favors highlighting aspects of it.  

At 10 years old I would soak up a lot of the information I heard on listing sheets, locations, pricing, remodeling, terminology, styles, etc. when our realtor would explain and showed my parents.

On the other hand, if you can avoid these potential pitfalls, there are opportunities out there.I recently purchased an intended buy and hold (90% of what we do) and ended up flipping it (this particular house was about an hour north of Concord in the Claremont / Springfield VT area):Purchased for $55K needing a good amount of capital injection:We did new windows, roof, deck and vinyl rails, cedar clapboard repair and paint, some sill repair, entire new propane-fired forced hot water heating and domestic hot water system (it had electric heat and an old electric water heater), plumbing repairs, full bathroom redo (new tub/shower with custom tile enclosure, new vanity, new toilet), half bath redo (vanity and toilet), new floors throughout (tile and laminate and refinishing of hardwood in living room), all new interior doors and finish carpentry, complete interior paint job, new sinks/faucets/finish plumbing, new appliances, a good amount of electrical upgrades, all new interior and exterior lighting fixtures, driveway redo with blue stone, a drainage-related landscaping improvement, filling in of a swimming pool, and other miscellaneous odds and ends.I estimated to be all-in (purchase, reno, and carrying costs) just under $100K.

I have been contracting and in the building /remodel business in N.

caused water leaks in plumbing ran a sump pump line into sewage( illegal) and it all leaks causing mold issues. and the guys gave me a fungal disease like ring worm from using my toilet, they left gate open and my ten year old dogs are gone forever. didnt mask off home from blowing in insulation and i am allegic to it borax and its all over house clogs up new furnace filter which i have to change every two days or furnace shuts down from over heating installed a cheap 19 dollar thermostate that dont work, put way to much insulation in attic now home creeks and bangs as it settles and roof is bowing theres a car parked up there like 2000 lbs of crap im allergegic to, and knobodies inspected there work at all!

However, effectively the returns for all of the updates are negative (except for 1 maybe, attic insulation), so the logical solution is to not do any remodeling prior to selling.So if you're expected to pay retail to contractors, is it safe to say you should generally leave the property as is prior to sale?