This is actually not an investment question... My family is looking for a new house (outgrew our old one). And of the houses we've looked at the two best prospects have been smoked in (one heavily). This is a non-star...

I'll be moving into a new house that has an outdoor patio, with misters. The current drywall ceiling has blistered paint. Rather than installing T&G (my first choice), I think I will just get it painted with some ...

Just bought a rehab project and we're about to complete it. We already pulled all the paneling off and when we did, the sheet rock was damaged from pulling the paneling and glue off the wall. We had the guys re-float ...

I have been working on my house that I am living in with the goal of moving out and turning it into a rental property. I own the home outright from an inheritance. The house was built in 1968 I have recently done some...

Is paint vapor permeability a concern?  I called the local Sherwin-Williams and they have a product for reduced permeability called Resilience but it appears to only be for exterior use.  I may be jousting at windmill...

When buying an older home from say 1920-1940 are there certain things that should be double/triple checked before moving forward?  I have a number of handy men in my family including myself who can make $5,000 look li...

Hello beautiful people of BP, I know there are a million threads on BP about mold,  but I did try to find somethign analogous to mine,  but to no avail. A tenant found what looks to be a little mold in the basement ba...

My parents came home to find that the upstairs bathroom had a leak from one of the bolts not being tight enough. The water leaked through the edges of the vinyl floor and now there is a big water stain on in the ceili...

Hi everyone,I'm looking at purchasing a property that has been inhabited by two heavy indoor smokers, they've been smoking indoors for 25+yrs in the property and it reeks heavily of cigarette smoke(even as a former sm...

My wife Andrea own over 100 rental properties in Metro-Detroit...We chased this 16 unit down for TWO YEARS before finally getting the owner to sell it to us back in 2022.It had A LOT of work that needed to be done:- T...