Maybe lay out a painters tarp or paper towels on the floors and counter to catch any water drips and to keep everything clean.

One line was indeed clogged with a painters rag..but on used houses any GOOD real estate agent is going to recommend this.party line sewer lines are the worse..

I let the painter pick the brand they prefer, as long as they run it past me first.  

My brother's girlfriend has an electric sander at her mom's house, so that's available to me if the PITAness outweighs my not wanting to inconvenience her.I got all the stuff I need to prepare my kitchen to be painted- the scary washing stuff (if anyone would give me tips on how to rinse this stuff off my cabinets and paneling, that would be great as my store didn't have the non-rinse type), the spackle, the paint chipper things, painters tape, and spraypaint for the things that go around the electrical outlets, as well as a few other things that I don't remember at the moment (lol)..I'm taking the cabinet doors off, the electrical outlet and switch covers off, spraypainting the switch/electrical covers, chipping paint, washing, more chipping, sanding, then putting up the blue tape.

The way our painter did this was pretty simple; she used drywall primer on the bricks.  

No complaints from the painter that sprayed my interior.

I already run a crew of three painters and a handyman.

As a side note, if anyone knows of a competitively priced painter in the area, I'd love to get the info.

I am so so on drywall, but am a good painter and can frame, install most plumbing, I do several roofs a year, and can do most electrical work. 

Then I had my painter come out and spray the exterior with the high end exterior paint from sherwin williams and i things that was $1400 all in.The framing crew was super happy to be dealing with wood again.