Most old hot water systems are butchered by HVAC guys who primarily do forced air and diy's who don't know what they're doing at all.

He would invest in large spools of butcher paper and tape it up all over the walls of his office.

RTA....ready to assemble, search on YouTubeTheir are various types, but, generally they don't differ too much...Usually their are a series of various types of predrilled holes for cam-locks, dowels and wood screws along with dado cuts for the base pieces and face framesAlso, good handyman that he didnt just start butchering them

You can butcher him on any review site, take him to court, file a complaint with the BBB, etc.I bet you already know this now.

I rehabbed the property by cleaning out all the junk, repairing dry wall, misc. small handyman jobs, repainting the interior, re-doing tile on one bathroom floor, doing hardwood-style laminate throughout, replacing the butcher block countertops with laminate countertops, and swapping out a few appliances.

I took the dive and made the offer at $365k because I didn't want it to slip away - the seller had it originally at $385k but there were no takers until he dropped it to our price.We got the keys on 9/25 and have been feverishly doing renovations to the basement unit to make it more livable and we have reached a good stopping point after tearing our the carpet and installing vinyl laminate planks, taking out the cabinets and putting in Ikea ones with butcher block counter tops, and finishing with base board and quarter round molding.

Why would a seller let someone who they don't know to (potentially) butcher their house and, on top of it, finance the project?

It was so badly butchered that I almost walked walked away from the deal, reminding them that they are only leasing 2% of the total square footage.

Most agents and buyers can not negotiate shorts like I can and butcher the deal.

It seems there’s something about the home inspector mindset/ knowledge base/ “knowing too much syndrome” which begets an aversion to owning rentals... sort of like the butchers I know that no longer eat ground hamburger meat...