The home features a large open floor plan with a modern fireplace in the formal living area which is tiled from floor to ceiling.

What are your thoughts on the fracture lines in the kitchen tile?

Services include: - Ceramic Tile- Hardwood- Laminate- Custom Showers- Backsplashes - Fireplaces- Schluter-Ditra Heated Floors- Vinyl (LVP & VCT) - Carpet & Carpet Tiles

Quite nicely finished on the inside from previous owner w/ tile floors, quartz countertops and stainless appliances.I am wondering if anyone has some estimates for how much an engineering study on this would cost, and what I could expect to save, given the purchase price?

There’s a level of trust in our supplier-contractor relationship, which I see as another layer of insulation in making a deal work with terms between him and I.

You should be able to go to your local lumber supplier and tell them you need framing lumber and they will set you up. 

For example, tile and laminate flooring.

People just has lot of equity, most RE transaction occured between 2010-2018 and all of them are doing fine by now.The very actual reason why we have a dip of real estate price between June 2022-Dec 2022, is not because of foreclosure/employment, but because there're too many FOMO supplier trying to catchup a bid.

If a tile guy told you that you had to replace an entire tile floor because two tiles cracked you'd laugh at him.

Sure enough there were several layers of tile, 2 layers of cedar & then we had to re-sheet the entire roof as the old 2inch thick pine slats were 2 inches apart.