Or is a good old fashion phone call to a contractor the way to go??

As I learn through self education, traditional training and modern techniques my goal is to share , promote and encourage the community to the best of my ability.

Most reputable HML's require you provide a scope of work and use a licensed general contractor to assure the work is done in a workmanlike fashion and yes, you will have up front costs of an appraisal and credit report.

I think that modern electrical code wants the dishwasher to be on its own circuit... you're not supposed to tap the circuit that serves the countertop outlet to the left of the stove, because that should be one of the two 20 A kitchen circuits.  

Oregon is poised to enact statewide rent control.https://www.npr.org/2019/02/27/698509957/oregon-set-to-pass-the-first-statewide-rent-control-billAs anyone with access to modern communication devices is most certainly aware, our Austin city council is very bullish on affordable housing.

I am most definitely one of the people who believes that many of the 100-year-old properties in my target area are better-built than the more modern ones.

I am at the point where I rarely read something I do not already know or have learned several months earlier.Books take months on end between getting to press, printing, and distribution, so much so that by the time I may get one in my hand, it is already outdated information.Don't get me wrong, the education is key, I have an entire library, literally, in excess of 500 books, many on REI in some form or fashion.

Furthermore, some of these same owners prefer doing business the old fashioned way (without bankers / real estate brokers breathing down their neck and inundating them with paperwork).

We contacted Arbor Trace to ask about the situation; we discovered the companies were collapsing in dramatic fashion.

Not sure who said it but someone above also mentioned the efficiency of modern windows.