I’ve been looking into all of his material and it’s got me very excited to partner, but wanted a 3rd party opinion first.

Good marketing materials, such as pictures, are important. 

Just replace the tops, it is not much more expensive if your contractor gets the material from a wholesaler. 

the free materials that were supposed to be provided at the 2 hr event have not been provided, even after 2 follow up emails to their main office asking why i wasnt given the materials/what would be done to 'check that box'!

I’m interested to see how my perspective changes in time as I start to own property of my own.I am curious though, are you saying you would put moldy materials back on the wall (that’s what they did originally).  

Remodels are going to be 100% dependent on the age, condition, area, materials used in construction at the time.  

I spent a fair amount of time putting the process and materials and resources together.

As far as how we did it we did everything ourself besides the AC unit but have a good connect for that and the roof which we basically got at labor only as the guy had extra material. 

@Jozo Cosic, bearing in mind that there may be material differences between Canada and the U.S. here, small multi-family projects like this rarely pencil out.

Ideally, I want to build this branch and regional operation around the concept of adding value and helping build current Realtors businesses instead of the usual drop in and drop off marketing materials approach that is still all too common in this industry.