The house needs lots of work such as new kitchen, bath, and replacing subfloor that has had water damage. 

House specs: There are 5 bedrooms and two bathrooms. a basement. dining room. living room. kitchen.5.

at least the character piece can be updated with the times.i'm leaning towards warmer 3000k in all rooms except the kitchen and bathrooms. i'll probably go cooler there.  

Located in a great neighborhood, formal DR, family room, built-in shelving, laundry closet & lrg eat-in kitchen w/ plenty of cabinet space.The home was once a rental, then individual family purchased it, they were foreclosed on, and the home sat empty for over 1 year.I have made some modifications to the home since I purchased with the help of family:  installed 2 new ceiling fans in the bedrooms, replaced 2 interior door knobs, replaced all outlets with 3 prong grounded, rewired the living room and hung double ceiling fans as there was not lighting other than lamp plugged into outlet, painted the dining room and kitchen, installed a dish washer, some small landscaping projects around the home, had ancient HVAC system serviced,  but much more needs to be done.  

There are currently 3 kitchens and three distinct living spaces but I would not have to completely separate them or convert the building to multi family.

My repairs would be redoing the kitchen with pre-fab cabinets and new appliances from home depot, new garage doors, making the basement bedroom legit with an egress window, refinishing the basement with new carpet and paint and new fencing in the backyard.  

In order of greater to least id prefer to replace these HVAC, ROOF/FLOORING, KITCHEN, SIDING, Electrical in that order with Electrical being the last thing I would want to upgrade or replace.

So the whole main floor has been renovated (new bath, kitchen, appliances, tore down and fixed sagging trusses, etc etc) and so now i have about 2200 left and i want to fix up the basement with mostly free materials, and paint the outside and fix the fence (minor things) so i am just wondering how far i should go with all these renovations?

All of the major  system  are in working order and the place just need cosmetic work in the kitchen  and bath......I would like to do the work myself is there any way around hiring a contractor or ways to cut the cost!

For cabinets, I use Alex at Kitchen Search / House Possible.