We use them locally for small areas of trim on the Craftsman style houses.

Many people with $100,000 Heloc's are seeing them trimmed down to $25,000 and less by the banks.

While off the roof I painted (sheetrock only the trim was great).

I am fairly new to Real Estate but no stranger to cashflow, crunching numbers (spreadsheet whore), and observing markets - Derivatives background.Honestly speaking, it took me a while to find a forum as good as this one so kudos to all involved.My interest in real estate is cash flow (buy and hold) and architectural style, which brings me to almost any brick building (federal style, art deco, chicago etc...) and heavy use of wood trim.

Tenant needs to do some raking and trimming outside, but that's it.I decided I (probably) won't be moving him out, and will either buy from my house, then move and sell this one.

Landscape cost, especially tree trimming of large trees.While not a comprehensive list, by controlling cost you can do better than the average of expense to income ratios for your area.

Regarding paint, it really makes a rental feel more like a "home" when you spend a little extra effort to paint the ceilings white, the walls an off-white, and the trim with a high gloss matching off-white.

What this kitchen really needs is new trim around the window".

I had asked about replacing the door trim, the handyman said no.

If you do it correctly, you don't even need to sand it.On another note, I also do the same with the all the hardwood trims.