The house has pine wood finished floors on the main floor and carpeting upstairs and a concrete basement floor in the 1940 house she's been renting for two and a half years.

@Ryan Woods @Sam Shueh @Ronald Starusnak  Thanks for the thumbs up!

This is specifically true for marbles and wood flooring.

For example, my average 2000 ft home needs on average $20,000 in upgrades to be ready - so $10/ft has been my average ( carpet/paint/granite kitchen/wood & tile floors, plumbing fixtures, landscape, hot water tank, HVAC repairs, $1-2K in Home Depot items as well).

My contractor built a wood stairway entrance to the top unit and I'm concerned my tenant will be trapped if there is a fire. can I put metal stairs near a window as an emergency fire escape?

I'm at a point in my life where I don't mind living in a place that needs some serious work and I have all the tools in my wood-shop to do most of it myself.HOWEVER my realtor inform me that the distressed properties I've been looking at do not qualify for conventional financing so I would need to start looking at newer homes.

Also need to repair rotten eSteroid wood beams and posts holding up the building structure.

Before all of this happened, I was the kind of person who got nervous when I had paid a bill within a few days of the due date.I have a 12-month loan of $3000 ($270 a month) and am using that to build on and put a wood furnace in to decrease my heating bill 6 months out of the year by $150-$200 a month.

Purchase price: $86,000 Cash invested: $25,000 2/2 condo both master suites. hard wood flooring throughout the living and dining room.

@Alexander BallGO TO THE SEARCH BAR AND TYPE IN : "EDUCATE ME , RENTING FURNISHED ROOMS "@Roy N. answers this question very well.