I have seen the trays that go in the bottom of a sink base, but I am concerned that water could leak down the sides of the sink base, ending up under the plastic tray, where it would not be able to dry and end up causing a bigger problem than if there was no tray in there in the first place.

Also a “7 bedroom” home may be listed as 4 bedroom on MLS with a “den”, “patio room”, “office” etc. so you really have to go look at the property.

Going up through walls is easy, often just 2 small holes in the wall, one to drill the plate and and one for the cat, the cross piece between studs usually halfway up a wall. fishing in the direction of the joists is easy, going across them can be done with small holes spanning the joist, notching it for the cable, and then put a steel plate over it.Given that your problem unit is ground floor, it's likely you can fish up from the basement very easily for outlets using "old work" steel boxes, plastic boxes don't work with plaster on lath, it's too thick.

Thankfully plumbers are using pvc and other plastics these days so if you upgrade, you'll be upgrading to something not worth stealing.

I won't hate on that because my tenants have plastic/old chairs as well.

The house that i am looking into buying is in centerpoint alabama and purchase price at $100k.The major concern that i am having are:The roof is at end of life.floor joist needs to be install due to flooring bad deflectionThere are broken cement at the patio / deckPossible water leak to the basement walls.i just don’t want to be the person who ends up with the expenses the previous owner should be taking care of.Can you give an advice on how to deal with this property?

If there are any obvious issues like posts that are unsupported, joists that look not connected or cut, cracks or crumbling in concrete or block walls, anything that looks wet or signs of pests.I also keep an eye out for what feels like unpermitted additions or covered patios.

There are some really nice plastic laminates out there. 

I asked my agent to shift the order of some of the photos and add a photo of the backyard patio space yesterday.

Want to finish the outside concrete patio as one last large project and be done with improvements.Hindsight:  Should have went with a 3-4 unit place but just glad to get started.