
16 August 2019 | 54 replies
You see if the people in the neighborhood are maintaining the homes, or are they just patch work units that are someone else's ATM.

5 June 2013 | 8 replies
We stayed in town and cleaned, hired a painter because the one she hired "touched up" by leaving patches of another color all over the walls, drove a trunk load full of food (open cereal boxes, pasta, food left in fridge, etc.) then another full of trash to a dumpster, replaced a missing bedroom door that never got deducted from the security deposit of the last tenant.

2 February 2014 | 7 replies
You can only get repair bids from NACA contractors, and their bids are ridiculous ($500 to patch a hole in a wall!)...

11 October 2014 | 6 replies
Drywall is cheap and it doesn't cost much to patch it if/when you get holes.

11 January 2015 | 6 replies
It will need:- New floors throughout the house- New roof- New deck- Paint, possibly even replacing dry wall (there are stained yellow patches throughout the home)- The basement to be finished- Brand New Kitchen- Brand new bathroomsI do not know the first thing about carpentry so I would have to find a reliable contractor but how do I find out the general cost for projects like those listed above in my area?

31 August 2019 | 131 replies
Being handy can decrease the safety reserve required for a novice just starting out...If you have a problem and you know that you and youtube can fix it competently for the cost of materials, you can trade your time for money and spend your weekend digging up that sewer line, patching that roof, replacing that window, or running some pex-- but hey at least your are working for yourself and you can get started with less cash.
25 May 2022 | 5 replies
I know some investors that went through a rough patch during the pandemic.
15 December 2023 | 77 replies
Every time you patch the drywall it looks worse.

4 December 2023 | 6 replies
If the roof is leaking, patch it or replace it.

14 January 2020 | 184 replies
It's come a bit off its piles and needs a jack and pack, 108mm slope across the whole property, 8mm less and the insurer would have patched it up at the time.We have some reasonable estimates (I will be getting some solid quotes in the next few months) and we are confident that we have enough contacts to get it done.After that it gets a bit murkier, The property hasn't seen much of an update in the last 20-30 years so theres a lot that we COULD do, if we had a more solid idea of how the demand is for properties on TC3 land (i'm pretty new to this, I wasn't expecting to buy a house for a decade so I have been on a bit of a crash course the last few months).