Our steady tenants moved out of some houses, and oil patch workers moved in.  

When I first started out I let the residents furnish their own room and after having to replace trim and patch holes in the walls, IMO furnishing saves you money.

The great thing about major rehabs is the whole place will need to be patched and painted.

The area is not bad, but there are some patches in that neighborhood which have rundown some, lots of broken fences and people without the money to maintain their property, perfect for a rental in a few years.

Tough patches don't last long when you behave that way.

Have some patch work on a wall that needs to be fixed so looking for a worker to hire to do it.

Holes in the wall are cheap to fix; my sheetrock guy used to send his patch guy around every week to patch holes for free, just because he wanted the sheetrock business.

The fed will keep pumping money into the economy via a fourth round of quantitative easing, but the boat has too many holes to be patched up.

If you don't see fresh sawdust nearby you may be able to just patch the holes and move on.

I've had plumbers tell me 1. oh good they didn't cut down into the slab, this is an easy job 2. oh good this is cast iron, it's very resilient 3. oh no this is cast iron it presents a lot of problem and we need to dig it up and provide you with a new water line and sewage line (made them explain what a water line was, now I know)Dry wall guy didn't want to do anything but patch up what was there.