We also had a 50 gallon oil spill in our basement with in 35days days.

Their stain-blocker plus paint is worth the $40 per gallon.

I've had some awesome results with Olympic Paint from Lowe's under $100 for 5 gallon bucket & the good thing w you just go room to room.

If this chick really wants to paint you can allow her to paint or pay for a gallon of paint or just tell her it's off the table as advised above.   

We got the bottom apartment looking decent after 2 weeks and I went back to work.After and before work I would finish the bottom apartment or work on the upstairs replacing and repairing.My plan was to take the equity we put in and use it to purchase additional properties.Unbeknownst to me one fateful day the oil company delivered oil to the house, to a boiler that was outside, a tank that was not hooked up, and a homeowner that didn’t want or order it.100 Gallons of fuel oil later and we were dealing with the DEC and contamination cleanup.The appraiser, that I was getting from the bank to explore a HELOC, came the same day as the oil spill and still appraised the house during the chaos of the morning and afternoon.The bank would not lend on the house due to the spill (which we are still cleaning up) but the appraiser did set the value at 104K.We keep dealing with the cleanup, and have been for months, and it seems to be coming along.I decided to empty my retirement in order to purchase another property while we wait for the cleanup to be finished.

I'm about to try mixing a gallon of kilz original primer with a gallon of oil-based rustoleum gloss yellow paint to see if I get 1 coat coverage for 20/gal.  

Problem is some tenants could care less if the shower is spilling gallons onto your floor.Design and make idiot proof.

So far it has survived some minor floods while it sat vacant for a time (a leaking 50-gallon water heater and also some water infiltration due to a bank of snow outside atop a drain that wasn't working).For the price, I don't think it's too good for a rental if you own a nice rental, as is the case here.

One of the subs dragged boards across it and stacked two full five gallon buckets of paint on top of each other in a room.  

I don't see a huge problem with it being that it is for work completed and it isn't an ongoing gift that implies he's getting a gift for hitting a value.Once, I was at a house in the country, and this guy made BBQ sauce, and he gave me a gallon jar of it.