Shoot it is expensive to have someone come in and refinish floors.  I never had to get a quote before and I had a GC come in today and check out my plans.  He actually told me to scale back a bit and not renovate as m...

Ok, before anyone has a heart attack because I want to cover the original hardwood floors with laminate, I need to give some background. Please read the back story to get to the real question, or just skip to the bott...

Hi All,This is a repost as I put it in the wrong forum earlier. My apologies. Would appreciate your thoughts. Second multi-unit, first real rehab. 100k budget and 70k in. So I have a three flat that I have been rehabb...

My house is built in 1925 with thick beautiful hardwood floors all through out, I was looking to hire a professional but it is so expensive when I can rent the machine for about 50$ a day. I 've seen houses with the b...

There is a home for sale locally that has had a sinkhole repair. By all accounts the problem is solved but it's value is obviously damaged irreparably. Would you buy a house with a repaired sinkhole to be used as a re...

Hi,

I bought this house built in 1948 and don't remember if the seller provided the lead paint disclosure. So I don't know if there is lead paint or not.

The house has tenant now what should I do now if...

Well, to make it short, I found some great resources on this thread- How to Harden Units , but I wanted to hear more. I'm picking up my first, 10 unit apartment complex. 10 tiny studio apartments. Mostly rented by mig...

Would you put 7mm aka 5/16" laminate down in a rental or is that too thin? Home Depot carries a variety of them but a lot of the colors only come in 7mm. Just want to make sure it's still durable. 

While looking at the fixer upper homes that are in the market, often times I see rooms that are wall to wall 1970’s style paneling. I was wondering how some of the rehabbers out there, are handling this common type of...

I'm doing renovations at my house. The main living areas and the office is hardwood, the other two bedrooms are carpet. I'll be upgrading the two bathrooms in the house, and undecided if I should put marble look tiles...