I poured a few bottles of Dawn dish detergent over the next 12 months and watered it in until grass finally began to grow back.I did all the work myself (except the new 200 Amp service) over a fourteen month period, including painting inside and outside.

For those of you who have fully replaced old windows & installed new ones in your personal or rental properties I’m curious what percentage it reduced your utility bills.I have an apartment unit that has 15 large old windows and has been getting high electric bills (electric furnace and no dishwasher or washer/dryer and temp set at 70) and I’m wondering if it’s worthwhile to replace the old windows.

Also just started a flip outside of Richmond that should be ready in April and will post next year when that one is finished.Purchase Price- 3 bed 1 bath at $162,000Rehab- $+/- 7,000 (did all the work myself, design by my wife)Sale Price- $192,800Scope of work- Install cattle fence around 3 quarters of the property- 2.05 acres and fenced in run with chicken cooppaint every roomface framed the kitchen cabinets and painted two tone- Upper cabinets Cream/white  Lower cabinets Grayrecess lighting in kitchenadded new dishwasher (did not have one)moved the laundry room to better fit the kitchenrenovated the bathroom to include a window and concrete sinknew heat pump and furnace new wide updated trimpainted outside of the house and upgraded the landscaping 

Thank you @James Wise and @Dawn Brenengen for the responses.

I was really excited about getting my first property/duplex under contract and went through inspections and was moving forward to closing.After working through what it would need to add the third bedroom it dawned on me that the main bedroom(and 3rd bedroom if added) in each side does not have any windows (no escape route). 

I bought a property with @Dawn Brenengen around April/May, highly recommend her and her team.My cash flow is very little for this Property.

Sliding Glass Door - $1200Bathrooms - $1800Half Bath -  $550Kitchen Cabinet Refurbishment - $2000Kitchen Countertops - $500Appliances (Dishwasher, Oven, Oven Overhead Range, Frig) - $2700LVP - $1950Carpet - $1015Interior Paint - $4000Exterior Paint - $2000Front Door - $270Balcony Door - $270Total = $18,255To me, my painting costs seem high.

The halogen dusk-to-dawn street light that every landlord in my are uses is like $115 buck at a big box hardware store, and the bulbs last a pretty long time. 

Dishwashers, garburators and fridge ice makers should be avoided.

It dawned on me reading your post that my two year degree will have me earning $1 mil every ten years and I payed a fraction of what you payed in 92 in 2013.