It needs everything: all appliances, cabinets, flooring, tiling... everything.

Our cleaning fees for the year were $40k, landscaping $2.5k, handyman $3k... all tasks that can be done by an operator and off set the loss of income from occupying the main house that brought in about $40k for 2024.My wife and I have decided that even though it makes good money, we have been in Texas for a year and we want to do something similar here and we are very much DIY people and don't want a PM company to run it to the ground.

It's middle class, low crime, clean & zoned in one of the top desirable High schools. 

Regardless, my strategy was to live in the basement and rent out the bedrooms on the 2nd floor.

I know people that are really good at their trade (plumbing, cleaning, electrician, etc) but they don't have financial discipline, they don't know how to market, they suck at customer service, they don't use tools to their advantage, etc.Cody Sanchez (lady in the video) buys different types of businesses and makes them profitable by applying basic business disciplines.

Who is responsible for cleaning the construction site and keeping public walk ways free and clear of construction debris since you are in CA without the ability to monitor the site?

All units have vinyl plank flooring.1% rule would make the listing price 570,000 using my LTR data.

So for the conservative busy professional that just wants to buy a clean house that is the attraction to turn key..

There's not enough evidence to tell me which way I would go.The pictures indicate that the last tenant didn't clean.

Only if you consider working every night, weekend, holiday, and times when I should have been on vacation lucky, mucking around in crawlspaces, hunting down houses, falling through floors, etc.