However, if you have an active leak behind one of these panels, you may have to pull out the panel to fix it... or funky stuff could start growing behind the panel.The finished part in the basement of mine is kind of an L shape, with a 10'x20' area and about a 10'x10' area adjoining, drywall ceilings throughout.  

You are talking about wall tiles here - I would have to see a picture, but I can't figure out in my head how you would have trimmed that out without it looking like crap or how it would meet surfaces properly, i.e. sink, etc. 

I know that on the surface $217 in that neighborhood on the buy side is too high, but that is only counting the finished sqft, add the 720sqft we finished from the basement and you have a much much better deal here. 

Learn to inspect and spot signs of key things like roof, foundation, termite or water damage from surface inspections.

Its a case by case basis for sure but on the surface knowing what I know, that is a pass for me. 

It's a smooth surface (made to varying heights) that you lay before these thin resilient flooring styles that was most likely laid to raise that level of flooring up to the same height as your living room floor... you'll probably have better luck removing that layer with the linoleum intact on top. 

Downtown and to the north as far as the hard surface road goes, maybe 2 miles at the time, along the Oceanside beach. 

I have a unit that has some surface scratches on a laminate wood floor.

For the househacking, even if a second unit wasn't detached (i.e. duplex with adjoined units), there shouldn't be any shared spaces, other than maybe the walkway.

We had one of those situations recently and it was easier to just rock over the popcorn - plus you get a nice clean surface for flat or knockdown finish.