All defective (cracking, scaling, chipping, peeling, loose, orflaking paint and paint that is to be disturbed by this Painting (Exterior) point or other points in the Work Write-Up must be scraped, primed and double coated.

painting is THE one thing you should never let a tenant do.you spend 5x the cost to fix it later.Years ago, a tenant of mine painted a bedroom and bathroom beige, didn't mask anything, and did a sloppy job.The only reason they decided not to paint even more areas is that they got lazy and quit halfway through the job.They get all excited and motivated at first, then realize painting is a bich.Was a big pain for me to prime and paint everything back to white.

The most common arrangement from the post-war years to the 1990s was a dewaxed shellac to seal the wood and then two coats of amber-tinted oil-based polyurethane.On the other hand, darker finishes would be used to mask inferior grain patterns or extensive knot filling, to disguise cheap planks that had obvious #2 Common characteristics.So this is where it gets a bit odd -- all four pics you showed us are of Select-grade flooring, some with light finishes, some with dark finishes.

Hallway was sloped 2" from side to side so there was definitely structure or foundation issues, all the tenants smoked so saying there was a lingering smell of smoke is beyond an understatement, walls were literally orange and caked with cigarette smoke as was the soffit outside two windows, multiple broken windows, peeling paint, doors stuck shut from wear and tear, broken front doors, and the worst part was every tenant knew his name and addressed him as if they were old pals (big problem).

They don’t do a lead “test” as someone mentioned, but they do look for peeling paint and require you to correct.

So let’s say there is a property that is in good shape for sale for $200k but it has peeling paint in some places and needs a new furnace.

You cannot show up with pizza, fried chicken, or a catered gourmet meal served by professional waitstaff and somehow mask what you are doing and your motives for doing it.This kind of obviously manipulative behavior blatantly insults your workers' intelligence.

If you peel away the expenses, you are better investing all the money directly in those things yourself.

It's a lot cheaper, and the smell of the new carpet is more than enough to mask cat urine stench underneath in the first month or so of the new carpet's life.

The appraisal stated, “ Soffit and fascia has damaged wood with peeling paint on 2 story building and it needs to be repaired/replaced, paint scraped and the area re-painted.