Hi All,I'm looking for various viewpoints to help me decide which cosmetic improvements give the most bang for the buck when one is trying to make a rental house or small multi-family units look more "upscale" (withou...

Hello BP, I'm in the process of rehabbing my first property and wanted to get advice on how to tackle the bathrooms. Keep or replace the vanities? keep or remove small window in the first picure? Retile shower or re g...

Hello All! I want to minimally renovate the master bathroom and kitchen in the condo we just bought. 1. For the kitchen, we have already selected the wood floor color and we preferably want to keep the countertop. I n...

I just finished a rehab that included a total tear down and rebuild of a detached garage. The problem is that the contractor claimed he was unable to match the vinyl siding on the new garage to the house. So now the g...

I recently signed a contract to purchase 3,200 sq. ft. duplex. In order to stay within budget I intend to paint the property myself. Given the size, I will be using a Milwaukee Airless Paint Sprayer ($249 at Home ...

The house I'm fixing is stucco and concrete block. The external paint color right now is purple and badly needs a new paint job. I'm having hard time choosing the new color for the outside. The other houses in the nei...

I'm fairly new to the Landlord game. Need to paint a rental (it's a decent, midrange kind of property - not a crack house but not a mansion, a standard middle class rental). How many coats of paint do you use and what...

I closed on my first two houses yesterday. I got the locks change and started working on the first house today. Started with some of the obvious repairs, Kitchen faucet, fixed a interior door and patched some drywall....

I have a house under contract in a suburb of Cleveland. The only problem, I am having trouble deciding what to do to the exterior. I don't have a huge budget for the exterior, right now I just have budgeted for painti...

Hello everyone.My property manager recently completed a make ready job that included this item "Full touch up paint and patch" for $1,550. When discussing it on the phone (I asked why this costs so much if that's just...