If you like to re do them every few years do the surround,,,if you want to once and done for 20 years,,,strip to studs, plastic 4 mill,,cement board,,,red guard,,,ceramic tile,,,grout with no seal additive.Clawfoot tubs are four sided slop pits in rentals. 

I am a retired Coast Guard Airman who is now a successful business man in Oceanside, California.

I hate always being on guard with words.

Coast Guard and owned a charter fishing business (Catch Five Charters) in Door County, WI with my father for several years.

Your viewpoint is so over-broad as to be incorrect.You can own class C SFR’s in good markets, get decent cash flow and appreciation and choose low maintenance tenants that rarely bother you making land lording easy.Or you can get into some class D property in the Midwest , make great cash flow, have zero to negative appreciation and have to hire security guards to collect rent on the 1st and 15th.

Guard Insurance is telling us they will not do that.

I want it so badly, and there was recently a sign on the door from a company called safe guard saying the property has been abandoned and the lender would be notified they have to clean up the yard and the locks would be changed.

I'm hopeful :-)Pat Flynn did a good job with his security guard site, but I wouldn't touch his backlinking strategy with a 10 foot pole.I don't want to stray too far off topic, but my biggest site is on Glacier National Park at www.glacier-national-park-travel-guide.comI also detail a virtual rehab here: http://www.seosherpas.com/after-buying-an-established-website/ ...

But, with the outrage started by right-wing commentators, it didn't make sense to hype up the issue while a Republican was in office; instead they waited for the guard to change.But, again, nothing about the TSA or their tactics have changed in the past 8 years (you seem to think that SNL has their pulse on the issues...if so, note that they did 3 TSA skits since 2002, not just the one from last week).I'll give them credit -- the right-wing commentators are very good about getting people to be outraged by things that they wouldn't normally be outraged about (they certainly play the game better than the left-wing).Take NY city mosque, for example.

I'm looking at getting a builder's risk policy through REI Guard and they seem to have reasonable rates (at least for that policy, not sure about their landlord policy).