Banks get insurance in these instances as easy as you and I stop and get a gallon of ************* milk, but even Lloyd's of London won't insure this house.

You need to bring microlife to the soil to have it hold more moisture and to deal with the current soil condition.Get red wrigglers, about 4 pounds, as well as about 20 gallons of worm tea.Prewater the entire yard to a damp, moist condition, and add the worms and then the worm tea after it starts drying, but while the soil is still damp.This will carry the microlife as well as the moisture deep into the soil and preaerate your soil.After this, THEN plant your sod.

This time,figure out exactly what you need before you go shopping.Have the entire property designed on paper and stick to it instead of expensive improvising after the fact.Know how much paint and flooring you need by taking accurate measurements to prevent over buying.Shop at contractor only stores with your contractor by your side,never Home Depot or Lowes.The best prices are never available to the general public off the street.Buy paint in 5 gallon buckets,not one gallon cans.Always buy in bulk and never pay the sticker price.Always ask for a discount for buying larger quantities from one merchant.Be loyal to them and they will be lower prices in the future.

Ask to see his license numbers and his insurance documents and then call to verify they are real and in good standing.Assuming you don't fire him, ask him to describe his training and experience so far and check his references from past jobs completed.Then ask who exactly will be coming to your home for each job to be performed.Who will be physically doing the painting,flooring,etc.Before work commences,ask him to show you the invoices for all materials purchased with your money and then visually verify that all the materials arrived to the job site and are not sitting in his cousins garage waiting to be used on another persons job site at your expense( theft of materials is all to common).Don't let him buy 100 gallons of paint and then only use 65 gallons and keep the rest for himself,see if it can be returned for a refund.The same with laminate flooring,carpet,bricks,pipes,and other materials bought in bulk from wholesalers.At each step,bring in an expert to inspect the work completed to see if he screwed it up and it need to be redone at his expense,not yours!!!

i sprayed them three times over the course of three days with bleach and painted them with mold killer from depot @30bucks a gallon... they were on bricks in the basement and in the walls above the drop ceiling. 

My favorite so far was the broken toilet chain repaired with a surgical rubber glove tied from the pinky to the thumb, which caused the toilet to leak at 5 gallons per minute for days on end... yeah, wasn't too thrilled about that one!

I would just use the $16/gallon interior paint from walmart for the interior walls.  

We've got good signs - 5% unemployment (tempered by the real unemployment rate is over 7%, tempered with the largest non-participating unemployed in history), we've got good signs 2.5% economic growth (tempered by that historically we should be closer to 4%), we've got good signs the Fed raised rates (tempered by they said they would raise 4 more times in 2016, watch and see if they do or they have to pull that back which is what everyone is predicting), we've got sub $2.00 gallon gas with consumers having $700 or more income to spend (tempered with a mild localized banking meltdown- Dallas Fed has suspended mark-to-market, JP Morgan for the first time since the recession (22 quarters) has had to increase it's loan loss reserve.

Lets say you spent $1000 to buy a 60 Gallon Power vent Water Heater.

When the tenants move out I go in clean everything and then I get a gallon of high quality paint and pour some on the floor and roll it out evenly.