After drywall is installed, what do you do to prep your walls for painting? It seems to me that paint doesn't go on as evenly as it once did. I'm not sure if it's the drwyall has been reformulated, the paper, or the p...

One of the properties I bought this year has a front yard eaten up with (or made up of) a grassy weed similar to crabgrass. The HOA is all over me and the renter about knee-high weeds, but they get that way in 3-4 day...

Hi everyone - when I bought my current property I immediately replaced every doorknob and light fixture that was the 90's style shiny brass or good finish. One of the only things left is the finish work on the gas fir...

My property is surrounded by city owned lots and while I will be fined if my grass is higher than 10 inches, the weeds on city land get taller than me by June (we have some invasive plants around here). All of this is...

I have a situation where the boiler room pipe sprung a needle size hole, spraying a very small amount of water against drywall.   From the beginning of the lease, I have instructed the tenant to look at the boiler roo...

Hi all. Just viewed a large, beat up MF in New York's Hudson Valley. Needs a lot of work but could be an amazing property. All hard wood floors, pretty scratched up and a bad smell of what we think is cat or dog urine...

I have a big problem. This is my first rental property. I rented it out to a section 8 tenant. She has been in the property going on 3 months. The problem started 3 weeks into the lease, the toilet was clogged up, I c...

I have  a ant problem in one of my units. It's a lower level unit. And it's in mn and it's almost Dec. It's cold out. Anyway Told the tenant to get some traps bait/ poision. Or get an exterminator? problem Lasted for ...

Can anyone recommend Painters and contractors with reasonable prices in Harrisburg, PA?I'm currently being quoted 1,100 to paint a 550 sq ft apartment.  They are saying that the windows will take extra time and treatm...

I've got the "anticide" or whatever it's called to put around the perimeter of the house, but is caulk the best solution to plug up the gap?