. ($1500 for a rental grade painter. $300 for landscaping supplies, $200 for fence supplies, and $1000 for new carpet) I would consider this cost difference to be the intrinsic value difference.  

My painter simply brushed and vacuumed it and then put on at least two coats of paint.

its does not sound like cutting corners just sounds like terrible finish carpenters and painters etc..

The only reason I ask is painters in my neck of the woods charge between double and triple extra to remove it, compound, and then paint.

Were else could a painter make a million bucks painting a mural at company headquarters than at Google..

We would still have used plastic sheeting. all the painters are RRPs they don’t charge more by the hour for the guys that are certified bc almost every house here needing work was built before 1979.

Did you hire a painter or a painter + finish contractor?

Most painters I use are very cleanI'm not really supportive of that being a good strategy.

They take ongoing repairs at a high level, a significant up-front capital expenditure to harden them, or both.In my area (rural New Hampshire) $27 for a decent carpenter is cheap, and $23 for a painter is above average.

Seeing a bad handyman painter plumber in a convertible is probably a sight😎