I recently installed some black ceramic tile with white grout. I realize now that the high contrast between the tile and grout makes any haze particularly noticeable.
The tile surface is smooth, with a silky texture....

I bought a duplex that needs new kitchen cabinets, counters, and flooring throughout. Questions:1. What color kitchen cabinets hold up the best? I love the white look (and prospective tenants would too), but does whit...

Is oyster gray "dark grout" or should I go with natural gray?I am buying at HD in the AM and I am not sure how dark "dark grout" is.Tile is off-white porcelain 12x24 neutral/slightly warm. Rental is nice enough that I...

The IRS discusses vacation home maintenance days.  They use examples where a family performs maintenance on a home for a week and the week is not considered personal use (it is additional to the 14 days of personal us...

I have a question to ask all the landlords out there.  I have a tenant who has accumulated a lot of mold on top of the bathroom ceiling.  He kept on asking me to repaint the bathroom because it was dirty and it was pe...

So I'm always at a loss for what to do with stairs.I normally use the metal stair edging for stairs that aren't showy: Leading to basements, etc because I feel that is best for slip/trip prevention, but I really like ...

Ok. I acquired my first property about 5 months ago. Purchased from my aunt who was a heavy smoker so I knew there would be some rehab. I had scrubbed most walls with TSP (not all) and primed with 1 coat of kilz. Te...

I recently went to my property to inspect and prep it for new tenants and found that the old tenants had let their child do some sort of project on the granite counter which left some bad ink stains in a variety of co...

Neighbor (the owner/landlord)
below my condo unit has complained about leaks from our unit several
times claiming that it has resulted in potential molding and other
serious issues even though we only see some s...

I sent some schematics to one of our contractors this evening requesting some proposals for a deck for our primary residence. The deck will be just under 800 square feet. Here are some brief notes:

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