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.

It appraised for $14k over what we paid, so with the remodeling (getting rid of fake wood paneling throughout, all new trim, complete kitchen reno, etc) I'm hoping we should be looking pretty good in 2 years if we decide to sell!

I've noticed a consistent trend -in my area- of flipped houses not having hardware/handles on the brand new kitchen cabinets.

Well we had a storm today and I came by after to check and quickly discovered water had leaked inside the back exterior wall running down to the first floor where there is a lot of water in the kitchen and bathroom and bedroom.

The property needed a roof, major plumbing and electrical repairs, total kitchen and bath rehab, had severe dry rot, and water damage.

It flooded out the kitchen once already.