White cloth tape at ductworks, mastic, 9x9 vct tile are items to look for that contain asbestos.

But I use mortar, not mastic to install tile.

Property is in Mastic Beach, its in a C neighborhood.

Recently we pulled all the paneling off the walls in the basement of a house we were redoing and as mentioned earlier there was a nasty mastic holding the paneling on that was giving us grief to remove, so instead of spending days scraping we just put a new layer of 1/4 inch rock in its place and finished it out.

Only problem is that the tile was laid over black mastic which contains asbestos.

I was able to get the result the next day .... tile was positive but the mastic (adhesive) was negative!  

Would love to connect with anyone who has been successful flipping houses in Suffolk County, NY.I've been eyeing the Mastic/Shirley/Mastic Beach area.  

@kyle Mastic welcome to BP.

I have ability to put 20% down on a $150K loan @5.5% I'm currently looking in the mastic area and surrounding towns.If anyone is willing to give me some advice on this mater I would greatly appreciate it and I would be willing to meet up for lunch/coffee for any further guidance.

My last 5 houses may have had that asbestos tile and glue, however my ignorance was in play and did not know about the tile and mastic tape contained asbestos or really the problems associated with asbestos.