IT’S WHO YOU KNOW— Dress up super nice and be very humble and/or waterworks sad and call/visit the County clerk, get them on your side, then go call/visit the city mayor, city administrator (often last longer than mayors), and get them to talk to the clerk/severing person for you.

They're called letters or certificates of estoppel, a fancy name for a simple thing.

In the interest of world class customer service, I got dressed, went over and squished the arachnid post haste then dispatched his little corpse down the drain.

Geez man you oughta be wearing a dress .

For the baseboards I pull the existing and replace with 1x6 pine with quarter round on top for that fancy touch.

In the neighborhood with the “Not for sale” signs that I had in mind with my comment, there are a lot of 100 year-old working class craftsman bungalows that are now squeezed in between fancy new 3 unit condo buildings that loom over them, so many people feel literally squeezed out by investors.

Ignore all thw fancy strategies that involve anything telling you otherwise... until you have enough experience to accept thise risks.

I don't bother with stainless steel appliances, if you need to dress up your place with a sheet of metal you've missed the real designs that truly improve the place.

But keep in mind the job of the insurance company is to try and avoid paying claims.They don't build fancy offices and name stadiums paying out claims.

When it comes to rental I really think people like fresh & clean over fancy.