Currently kitchen, laundry and downstairs bathrooms have linoleum floors, except master bath and walk in closet has carpet. 

Has anyone ever acquired a severely distressed property (long neglected water damage, structural damage, mold, hoarders (and cat poop)) and lived to tell about it?   We are so shocked by the state of a recently acquir...

The kitchen has medium colored wood cabinets with brass hardware and green laminate counter tops.

Level 2 River White Granite and Venetian Gold Granite are two other options I'm looking at...The home is a rental property which I'll either move back into or sell in 2-5 years.This is the wall and floor colorThis is the kitchen with the old cabinets..Cabinet uppers and lowers are going in painted white.You can see where he island will go

I actually hand wrote the contract on his kitchen table.  

For multi-family rehabs, I've redone a ton of these small '50s-'60s baths with the pastel tile and fixtures, but added an updated punky-kitsch twist, and people went absolutely crazy for them (budget kitchen re-dos, too).

Something caused the gas vapor to ignite and the kitchen went up in flames.

I ended up doing a single pass on the entire apartment and then hitting the problem spots like the kitchen 3 times.

All my guys that work for me (framer, siding, roofer, tile, kitchen, hvac, plumber..

As we all know inspectors can be your worst enemy, they don't have to be your friend but you want to stay off their immediate radar..Code upgrades are usually only required if you pull permits.. to do upgrades,, but if for instance they do a yearly inspection and find you need GFI outlets in bath and kitchen you'll need to comply and get it taken care of.. along with what else they pick out that needs replacing or repair, once the door is opened up they have the right to write fix it orders until it's in good enough shape to comply with living standards.1. parking for your tenants.. forcing to register cars..