We hear horror stories of contractors smoking inside projects or using the cheapest grade of materials and have been called to correct another contractors work (more expensive than our original bid).

It was understood that they were going to give us keys at closing but they have gone dark on us...

Or was it priced high but that happened to be the week Mommy and Daddy were in town because Junior was having problems with pot-smoking roommates and they wanted him to move out ... anywhere?

Taking a photo of the sticker for later reference sometimes works, but zoom into the photo right after you take it and make sure you can read everything... the furnace sticker is sometimes in a dark corner and the outside sticker sometimes gets faded in the sun.  

Firstly, the basement walls' color was black / dark gray and we discussed on the phone that they will use some neutral color for it.

My most likely route will be to go with a narrower engineered type product, in a medium/dark stain, and then have it matched when the floor guy refinishes the rest of the house.

A lot of this theoretical rent money might prove to be: largely smoke and mirrors?

When I bought the building I made it smoke free, and he was a smoker (as was all of his company).

Listening to Brandon's Podcast here makes me think that i need to buy a property that is falling into a sinkhole and covered in black mold and then get my "Justice League" of contractors to fix it up before I can make a profit off of it (using the BRRR strategy).I desperately want to jump off the high dive into real estate investing but Im deterred because I dont want to buy a property with more cigarette smoke damage than a 1950s casino.

Listening to Brandon's Podcast here makes me think that i need to buy a property that is falling into a sinkhole and covered in black mold and then get my "Justice League" of contractors to fix it up before I can make a profit off of it (using the BRRR strategy).I desperately want to jump off the high dive into real estate investing but Im deterred because I dont want to buy a property with more cigarette smoke damage than a 1950s casino.