The more you work in real estate - whether you're painting houses, selling houses, or doing comparative analyses of housing markets - you'll start learning what you need to know in the niches out there that might be of interest to you.Why don't you start through some of the education and tools tabs from above and tell us what grabs your interest?

The problem is the city requires an itemized list of repairs with estimates of repair for each violation. 90% of the violations are things like peeling paint, windows and doors not working etc.

I can't paint my stock portfolio- or build a deck on an investment acct- I enjoy finding a deal, I enjoy making the property attractive to a tenant- I love seeing rent checks deposited - and I really love that an investment that I can physically put my hands on actually helped me quit my job in my early 40's - I think my love of real estate investing began as a little kid playing Monopoly

Should I rip the tile out or can it be painted? 

I've only worn what I had on that day, so sometimes I was working on the property when they came by and it was scrubby paint stained jeans and t-shirt, and other times, I was coming from work or church and I was wearing finer attire. 

The biggest ordeal is the Windows as well as the exterior paint.

I own Starsacpes F/X of DFW; I paint cosmic murals on ceilings.

Re painting, sheet rock the normal.

Paint the exterior a nice color and move on.

For FHA, you won't get approved for a list of reasons (flaking paint from before 1978, etc...).