There is so much to this equation, some not given, that it would be difficult for anyone to answer but I will add food for thought.

There is so much to learn on this website!

They will sell it as is.  So

This way you can calculate the estimated repair costs (if applicable...and it usually is) so that you can offer it to your buyers at a fair price.

I dug deeper and found out the true motivation for needing to sell and stay as a tenant is that the HOA's are killing him and that the only reason he wants to stay in the area for now is so he doesn't uproot his son right before school starts.

She pads the padding so to say, making a $35000 renovation quote which includes padding into a 45000 estimate with no real justification.As for profit, she says she wants a set % however, when a house produces a dollar amount under $20k of profit, then all of a sudden the % doesn't work any more.She is so scatterbrained at times, I have no idea how to deal with her. 

I like to focus the conversation on why that reason is so painful and follow up with "I'm ready to do this today".I just wrote a post on my bigger pockets blog on this very subject :)

You don't indicate what or who your "group" is composed of or even what kind of group it is, so the question exists in a vacuum. 

I don't know why the list price is so important here if the value is really that high and repairs that low.  

@Melvin Gooden You are quite welcome sir.There is so much, it can seem like to much.