The egress will cover the bedroom but as you will see by attached picture the living room (at bottom of stairs, doorway from here into bedroom with proposed egress) may be a problem.

I had one recent inspection that I failed, because I did not have a stair railing on the basement steps on the open side.

If a tenant falls down your stairs and sues you, then the LLC (provided it's set up correctly and run correctly) helps shield your personal assets from the lawsuit.

steve k, no, i do not take the lowest bids every time. the reason the last two guys were lower than the rest was because i have worked with them in the past. the brick guy does excellent cement/brick work and he just happened to be there when we got the latest house.i just want a fair price. i had a guy give me a quote for drywall, doors, tile bath and shower 800sq ft basement for 6k. and that's labor only. i buy all the materials. of course i think this is insane to do drywall, 10 doors and tile a shower for that price.john, normally i supply the materials and they just charge for labor. when i get a quote that shows me that they are making $50+ per hr (since i know how long it takes to do the job) really ticks me off. how much do your contractors make an hr?

I feel like I shouldn't alert my buyers network for something that isn't cement.

The last fix and flip I did had a foundation settlement issue as evidenced by a large stair step crack in the exterior brick wall.

here's the million dollar question...we all know you're supposed to, but how many of us actually lay cement board down before tile?

Every time I went into the hall to look, there was never anything there.I also heard foot steps on a regular basis on the stairs.

So while I was running up and down the stairs from the upstairs bathroom to the basement turning the water on and off, priming each line, I must have twisted my knee and tore some ligaments, because it has hurt since last Saturday morning and swelled up yesterday, after I worked on my knees the night before, oh and it hurts like hell.

The problem was that the powder laundry detergent (such as Tide) did not disolve completely and had actually cemented together at that exit point to form a partial blockage that interrupted the flow of the water but did not stop it.