I recently purchased my first buy and hold investment. The house was in pretty decent shape. The seller wanted out quickly and so they agreed to provide funds for some needed repairs that came up during the inspection...

Rented a sander from HD and the guys there say they've never seen this before. Anyone have experience build up from the wood floor coating?
It's leaving more scratches than it's sanding

How do you strip thick paint off a deck? I put a little paint stripper on a patch, but it just gummies up the top layer slightly. Belt sander did a little better, but I would never finish. Is there a technique or p...

I have a property with extensive water damage on parquet hardwood flooring as shown below.  The property is about 1000 sq ft and I have three water damaged spots like the one shown in the pic.  The hardwood is lay on ...

I'm buying a house that has hardwood floors, but they're stained and need to be cleaned up. We're not looking at more than 600 sqft total. I've read about chemical solvents for cleaning and also full-blown sander rent...

My house is built in 1925 with thick beautiful hardwood floors all through out, I was looking to hire a professional but it is so expensive when I can rent the machine for about 50$ a day. I 've seen houses with the b...

I have beautiful wood floors covered in brown, nasty paint in one of my units. I was planning on using a drum sander to handle it, with a very-low number grit. Has anybody done this? What's the best way to deal with t...

Shoot it is expensive to have someone come in and refinish floors.  I never had to get a quote before and I had a GC come in today and check out my plans.  He actually told me to scale back a bit and not renovate as m...

Landlords: can/have you deducted the cost of equipment used to repair your apartments from security deposits?

I know that in general materials used to repair a rental like cleaning supplies, plaster, etc can be dedu...

My house is nearly all wood floors . I was thinking of trying to refinishing all rooms and see how it goes. I will need a shop vac, and a floor sander. Though i do have a hand held belt sander would it work ? I once...