I have been soaking every podcast, key word alert, and forum up.

The existing cabinets are soaked with mouse urine, in which case, there is no way to get rid of the smell.I can repair an amazing amount of damage with Elmer's wood putty.

The trouble is that dog urine soaks down through the carpet, into the pad, and into the floor.

I guess right now i'm in the stage of building a buyers list and soaking in all the useful info I receive along the way.

My background in real estate is home ownership for 6 years (one for 3.5 years and currently living in one for 2.5 years) and the information I have been able to soak up from reading.

The subfloor may also have to be patched.Water and urine can soak into a wood floor to the extent that sanding will not be enough to get to clean wood.

Soak up the info on here you can learn a lot.

You can learn a lot from this board so soak up the info and ask questions.

Welcome to VP soak up the atmosphere here you won't be disappointed.

we have this in my town also $65 a year and they do an outside inspection onlyit is total crap and just another way to soak us "rich " landlords,,, if they were truly concerned about rental up keep they dont need a yearly inspection for that code inforcement officers go around marking up fines all day long on any house especially bank owned vacant houses they know it will have to be paid by the bank before it can sell