The shelves are nothing more than 2x12 douglas fir ripped down sharp, sanded, and couple coats of poly urethane.

I stay away from the diamond-coated variants of these blades because I've chipped the edges of tile with them.After you dig the top layer of grout out of your installation with this tool (no more than two or three millimeters), you go over the same grout lines again with a thin coating of pre-mixed grout.

White Coat InvestorPhysician on FireTough to manage business/property while in medicine, particularly in med school and residency.

If you are a dentist, you dress in your white coat.

Would you believe that there are guys making money on e-bay by buying electrical bus bars, cutting them with a band saw, weighing them, using scribers to write the weight on them, covering them with a coat of varnish and selling them to "investors" as investor grade bars of copper as an inflation hedge?

Doing a little math, a payment of $309/mo on a 30yr mortgage at 4.49% comes out to a $61K mortgage, so $20,500 down plus closing costs. it appraised at 108k for the loan. put a coat of paint and it would be 115k. lol

Newer housing might go better with a thicker grade of engineered wood, no 5/16" junk.

Of course, even the passive investor can become active if they decide to value add to the property, whether it be a nice coat of paint on the exterior, or new cabinets in the kitchen, to increase the value prior to selling it. 

Get the thicker click-together variety from Home Depot.Sheet Vinyl: Medium to low-end kitchens, and basements.

For commercial properties, I drive a Mercedes 550SL convertible and wear a sport coat.