He did a very high end flip including a swimming pool complete with fiberoptic lighting, Brazilian hardwood floors, Carrerra marble kitchen counters, above mount bathroom sinks, top of the line appliances, flat panel wall mounted TVs.

In our lease forms it states the tenants are responsible for damage directly caused by them.I plan to start using maintenance request forms to document all our repairs, maybe I should use these to charge the tenant in case they, for example, clogged a kitchen disposal?

Kitchen felt really tiny, even compared to my tiny kitchen, probably due to the floorplan.

With full wheelchair access, 10 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, and commercial grade kitchen.

But having this in the lease may prevent tenants from dumping food/grease in the kitchen sink or unwanted items (toys, etc) from the toilet.

I've looked at a lot of condos, SFH's that have a great price and then find out the property taxes haven't been paid for 3 years, the have cleaned everything out Including the kitchen sink, like Ted mentioned HOA fees are out of control, the neighborhood's foreclosure rate is a lot higher then surrounding areas.

This year it's carpet cleaning, next year it will be new kitchen appliances ... because the oven got filthy.If carpets were in a clean condition when they moved in, it is the tenant's responsibility to keep them in the same move-in condition until they move-out.

There is also a house right across the street on the mkt. for 149.5k that is a flipper (pretty much only cosmetics/updated kitchen per an online virtual tour.)

Overall I would say that on a $20K kitchen redo you might save a few hundred $$, but you'll lose that back in time wasted waiting for delivery.One other opinion that I have on this is that "every" radio talk show host in the surrounding two cities, primarily a bunch of low level rush limbo wannabes does radio ads for them.

and then boom you added $25,000 in upgrades but just got tile and a few things that dont even seem like up grades. who buys a new house with laminate in bathrooms/entry/kitchen. no one. but then again thats what comes with those houses unless you upgrade. just some thoughts..