I have a very fluid schedule as I own my own business and have thankfully racked up 2 million + miles on my Amex.

The kitchen and bathroom cabinets look as bad as the walls do and the stove is missing both of the racks and the bottom drawer.

It is scary, nerve racking and causes some uneasiness, but you have to get out of your comfort zone and DO IT.

If there's not, then chances are that you don't have any higher up (there are exceptions, like someone picking up some used wooden furniture with termites and bringing them into their apartment, but it's not so often)What's the roof like?

But now that I think of it, would I be better served building a wooden deck over top of the concrete and hiding it?

Hello everyone,My story comes out of North Jersey where it seems that being a landlord is becoming more and more of a nerve-racking stroke-causing endeavor. 

I live 40 miles away, so I called the owner of the biggest plumbing co in the city and he and 2 techs drpped everything to get to the property within 10 minutes of my call.I had put a garage outdoor access remote on the outside of the house.. they couldn't get in thru that because THE POWER WAS NOW OFF.Luckily i had put a coded door knob on the kitchen door that opens to the deck-- i gave them the code and they were inside instantly.The water heater was STILL SPEWING WATER full blast in a stream so strong it was hitting the second story ceiling and hitting the ELECTRICAL PANEL also located in the garage and that's what had knocked out the power .The plumbers immediately turned off the inside water main cutoffand sent me photos of the EMERGENCY SITUATION the pm so calmly let me know about by email an hour earlier.i fired the pm co that instant and got on the phone to start farm (my rental policy ins co) whiledriving an hour to the property.i also called the city's best WATER EMERGENCY REMEDIATION COMpany while en route.When i got there, the water was turned off ( finally)the drywall ceiling had fallen in, the light fixtures destroyed, the garage door open case was HALF FULL OF WATER and there were 1000s of mold blooms on every surface and hundreds of stacks of spiky growing black mold (looked like iron fiilings we used to play with in that game we all had as kids where u use a magnet and drag the iron filings around to put hair and a mustache on the bald guy cartoon photo) the mold spikes were 1.5" tall on the woot railings and stairs going into the house, on all of my beautiful built in wooden garage shelves--- what a mess-- like the streets of Beirut after the bombs went offand I don't have allergies -- but i could not even STAND inside the garage because the WET MOLD MILDEW SMELL was so strong it instantly gagged me and gave me a headache and i couldn't breathe.So here Ewe are on Jan 17 and now i know that the BEST rental dwelling policy dies NOT COVER MOLD REMEDIATION AT ALL ( so far $14,000) but it does cover water damage with a $2500 deductible...

Good friends won't take advantage of you, but realize that they may lose a job or rack up too much debt and find it hard to make their payments.

Would the wooden support beams in the basement thing concern you?

@Whitney Hutten.. unsure if I'm looking at the correct picture.. but looks like your bay window looking at the wooden fence is picture #2?