All Forum Posts by: Gavin M.

@Madie Leidt I know this post is a year old but have you found anything that shows how they may or may not hold value in the future by chance? 

For those that have had window world windows installed how have they been performing after they been in for year or ten ? 

still happy with your decision? 

Pends on long term goals also. Why not protect the building from outside in. Insulation, windows installed correctly, exterior water management. Amazing how many places are letting water get in and routinely soak walls wether it’s right behind the drywall or it gets to the inside drywall. Lots of mold sitting there. Tenants may love new flooring n paint or whatever but if you explain to them what your doing by properly fixing some of these exterior things they’ll mostly understand and be ok with not having a moldy musty smell behind the walls in paces. 

If you have broken tile it’s possible something was dropped on them. Or you might have cracking grout or loose tiles throughout the area. You can’t skim over failing tile. If your confident it’s installed well then you can skim over it and install lvp. 

@Madhav Ghanta thanks. I was just curious that’s all. Some of these multi families and any residence for that matter are in need of so much remodeling that it’s crazy how anyone could get there money back out in a timely manner. Remodeling is only going to get more expensive. I’d rather have a more energy efficient home to rent out from beginning. Obviously there’s plenty still out there by all means. But if your fairly handy I don’t think it would be a bad call to try and do a modular. 

Has anyone recently had a builder build them a “shell” for a duplex then you try to finish the majority of it yourself ? 

Or has anyone had a modular style duplex built for them? (I’m not sure that’s even possible but I would think it could be)

@Evan Polaskii can’t really it was just wishful thinking I guess. My first one so I’m eager to find ways to increase rent 

Thanks everyone for the input.

@Jonathan R McLaughlin I wasn’t thinking about a window, which I assume I would need to have. And that would def be expensive as I would have to hire that out. 

@Brandon Sturgill I did a horrible job asking my question lol. Im wondering if i should try and squeeze another bedroom up here to make it a 4 bedroom home instead of 3. I just updated it. Basically im removing all the drywall in the pictures and removing the old batted insulation. In the center of the room the roof goes another 2.5 feet above the current ceiling height. So i will likely leave the collar ties exposed and drywall the roof line to gain all that in the peak. The roof will have a r38 and the walls will be about r21 after spray foam. When it gets warmer out i will check and see if theres plywood under the sofits as i think ive seen that in the older style homes. Hopefully this all makes sense. 

@Steven Foster Wilson ya the duct work is right inside the wall behind the stairs. Right now its just connected to the kitchen vent with a plastic tubing type material connecting the kitchen vent to the up stairs vent so its not really being pushed up there but thats an easy fix. Hopefully that makes sense. And ya it was -27 this morning real feel when i woke up lol.