CAT URINE HOUSE- ADVICE?

[Joshua D.]

Hey guys,

Getting ready to close on what appears to be a pretty sweet deal. I have it under contract with the owner for $23,500 with a ARV of $120,000. House needs about 35k in work. However, the cat urine is BAD in this house. The previous owner moved out and let his 3 cats live there for nearly a year with no litter boxes. You can imagine how horrible the cat urine smell is.

Any suggestions? We plan on tearing out all of the paneling and potentially the sub-floor to lay down new, and we had a Sherwin Williams rep suggest some kind of urine-smell killing agent to spray the ENTIRE inside of the house with, but how do you typically handle a cat pee house, investors?

Thank you!

[Nicole A.]

JD gives great advice on this. One of my properties smelled pretty bad, but I'm guessing not as bad as you. There wasn't wood flooring to sand....just old nasty carpet. We removed it and returned a day later to find it still very smelly. We then bleached the subfloor and that seemed to rid of the smell.