As you alluded, a rooming house can be lucrative, but it will be more administratively involved than letting apartments.We rent furnished rooms and provide dishes, cookware and appliances in our kitchens.  

Part of my rehab will be a new kitchen including new cabinets, range, dishwasher and counter tops, etc.    

Stove and refrigerator are needed for a complete kitchen

@Kevin Polite It's a 3 bed, 2 bath of 1,192 SF that was renovated in 2013 with a new kitchen and baths.

(Oh, partner, please paint the kitchen, cut the grass and contribute $1,000 for advertising)Good luck ---- Charles

Think of it this way, brand new stainless appliances cost me $1,350 for a kitchen.

I found an entire kitchen including maple cabinets, Thermador HUGE fridge, double ovens, range top, trash compactor, sink, and granite slabs also on OfferUp for $1400.

I sat at her kitchen table with a Ron LeGrand book on how to buy houses in foreclosure.

We had a tenant who started a full blown kitchen fire in the basement unit of a duplex.

I was only in the kitchen, but there was food everywhere and the place was completely disgusting.