There were cracks throughout the home along the walls and ceiling.

You can only "make intact" non-movable and non-mouthable surfaces such as flat walls, baseboards, ceilings, etc..

He's already proven resistant to your advice, so why are you beating your head against this wall?

It's impossible to find out if there is mold until we open up the wall.

I'm also not sure about the housing market here, I've been searching for deals every way I know how for the last 5 months here and while there are some decent deals here, the return just doesn't seem to be worth the investment although if you believe the stats on areavibes.com it shows that 48.9% of housing in this city is renter occupied, which seems incredibly high, so for a long term buy and hold might sound decent, but I think it also means there are not many people buying homes here which means I could get completely stuck in a property with no exit strategy.I'm just racking my brain and trying to use this incredible gift to help put me in a much better situation, even though I know it's not an insane amount and I need to be extremely careful with it because one wrong move right now and it could all be gone.I have loved the career path I've been in working in news, it's been incredibly fun and fulfilling, but I'm seeing the writing on the wall that this industry is going through a change, and people in my position are starting to get cut and also paid less than we were 10 years ago. 

Not sure how many offer a hook to plug into, because alot of these chat apps try to get you into their own walled garden.A few possibilities off the top of my head:LINE (popular in Japan)WhatsApp (Hong Kong and rest of Asia)Facebook/Google chat

Students tend to hang lots of posters and knick-knacks; be hard on walls, doors,etc.  

You are supposed to anchor it around the walls/edges with double-sided tape, but other than that it's not attached to the floor at all. 

They may pour concrete in toilets on the way out and pull every bit of copper pipe out of the walls!

Its actually what looks like about 4 walls of a bottom floor of a SFH-sized building.