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Just bought house to BRRRR. Fairly new—5th house. Removed all carpet and padding and have done one thorough cleaning. The odor of cat urine remains. The hardwoods beneath the carpet appear dark at spots, which leads m...
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Unfortunately we found bedbugs in our apartment. We are convinced they came from the complex's laundry room since neither of use traveled recently nor had house guests. It was deemed a very mild infestation since we...
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I was walking in a neighborhood in Napa, CA, yesterday, and I saw a house for sale with plastic on the roof. I called the realtor and found out that the owners have a tenant in the place currently who is leaving at th...
In the past we've ordered parking stickers for the 400-500 tenants each year and handed them out. There isn't much cost between those and the hard plastic mirror hangers when its all said and done. I was wonderin...
Hello,I recently closed on a triplex and the apartments feels very chilly in winter weather proofing with a plastic cover sealing the windows mitigated the issue little bit but I would like to get to the root of caus...
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We are currently remodeling the kitchen of our primary residence, as soon as it and a few other improvements are made we will be refinancing and moving on to the next project. We are in a dilemma in choosing counterto...
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I was planning on putting in granite in a rental but in looking more closely, the current non granite counter tops are in really good shape. I'm painting the cabinets. Putting in a new back splash. New sink. New dish ...
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One of my rentals has laminate wood floors. They are grimey to say the least. Any recommendations on cleaning. I am starting with water and vinager. I also bought some good gone.Any suggestions?
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Any ideas on how to plug a hole in an old fiberglass shower unit? The prior owner had the shower head installed at about my shoulder height. I plan to raise the shower head and would like to not replace the whole unit...
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I have two exterior walls that need insulation. one particular wall has just the studs and the bricks behind them, so no way of putting sheeting/tar paper/vapor barrier, etc.so, i am thinking of just putting sprayfoam...