I have been reading up on updated housing laws in Oregon but cannot seem to find a concrete answer to this question.  

@Gilbert Lugo -if by chance the house is on slab, we've been doing stained concrete.

If I’ve got a concrete floor I’m going to do a wood look 6x48 tile at $2psf plus labor (usually all in at 5-6 psf and it effectively lasts forever - I’m often removing the fugly 30 year old pink 12x12 tiles in perfect condition.) or vinyl plank (life proof or similar).

They don’t provide appropriate horizontal back pressure and are built to fail much sooner than poured concrete. ~80 miles from where I sit right now probably 60% of basements with blocks have been replaced or reinforced so that the house sits on steel posts and posts have been installed along all exterior basement walls so that the blocks can’t shift anymore.

I hired some men to break up the concrete around the pool and throw it into the pool.

Beth D.1) Concrete 2) Ceasar stone3) Corian {I'm not a fan}4) resin impregnated wood pulp5) There are a few countertops out there made from recycled materials (glass, cement, wood fibre) that look like stone, but can be cut with your table saw.

But the home's front door opens into a soaring three-story, glass-front atrium intersected at different levels by concrete compartments that serve as rooms built around a minimalist curved staircase."

I've already had two gc come and take a look and they said the options I have are 1) break the concrete and install new hookups into the garage, or 2) move the hookups from the kitch into the patio (enclosed patio already).

This is one of many ways to "protect" the seller - homeowner in short sale.Now, I can also see the seller's side of wanting something a bit more concrete from a buyer and not wanting to waste their time or that of their client's.

I often put free broken concrete on there so I don't have to pay to get rid of it.