Check out them windows.

Even if you don't have handyman skills, much of renovating a property is grunt work like washing walls and floors, painting, cleaning windows, caulking, scrubbing grime off tubs and sinks, polishing faucets, and so forth.

They'll leave doors/windows open, blast the A/C, etc.

Sometimes it means you have a house with an odd layout, or a neighborhood that potential renters don't favor, or a house that will be more work/money than a renter wants to get into (old drafty windows for heating, huge lawn to mow, etc).

@Mike CumbieOften times a HUD property comes back on after 8pm during the week so with a midnight deadline it can leave a small window.

Her details:Original purchase $190KUpgrades (to finish 2nd floor/ windows flooring etc) $22kApprox Value $300kHer Mortgage balance $110kWe have been looking into options of combining equity, initially to build but not sure if the scenario above is possible.

You are just tossing it out the window.

Be ready for windows wide open.4.

Windows, roof, plumbing were all done within the last 10 years. 

Currently there are no windows and strangely enough the parking deck is partially over this area so Im not sure if noise or water could be an issue.I def do agree if the construction costs are not insane it the bump in NOI +refi would most surely pay for itself.