It's not just about creating beautiful spaces; it's about making every square foot work hard for both the investor and the end-user.Optimizing Space UtilizationThink about how reconfiguring a floor plan can add value.

Main project was to take out the old boiler system and upgrade that for the radiant floor heat.

If you are both not fully on board, your spouse will resent you because this was not his/her idea and you are still living on concrete floors or sharing 1 bathroom, etc. - just the inconvenienced existence of fixing up one project at a time.

(New Kitchen, Bathroom, Flooring, etc.)I look forward to hearing back from you all,Vincent Cavalieri

The kitchen is on the first floor, and all the bedrooms are on the 2nd floor with a bathroom.

Quote from @Heath D Wallace: Quote from @Nick Rutkowski: @Heath D Wallace Cats can damage your property if not maintained correctly, if your apartment has carpet then cat urine is can get soaked in it if the cat pees on your floor.

I was able to rent the garage to a seasoned electrician running his business through there only coming in and out to stock his truck once per day.I hope to be able to convert the second floor into an ADU as soon as Feb 2nd rolls around.

Renovations were mostly cosmetic but included a new roof, windows, siding, front and back porch and patio, new flooring, paint, kitchen, bathrooms, fixtures.

Now the living room and 2 bedrooms that just had new flooring put in them 8 months ago are ruined from the leaking water from the HVAC and have to be replaced again.

If you're cash buy and hold, then maybe you just leave it and work around it with uneven floors.