First thing to buy at home depot -locks! 5 posts by 3 users

Posted: 01/25/2008 at 10:30PM

After you purchase your rehab project, as soon as you can fly to the depot and get 2 things
1 - new locks
2 - boards for broken windows

I had a rehab a few months back where the back door lock was broken. The walls were kind of torn up and all the pipes were exposed in the basement due to water leak = ceiling fall down.

Didnt think much of it, there was nothing in there (so i thought), until the next day i came back and ALL THE COPPER PIPES WERE RIPPED OUT.

it was kind of a bad/turning better neighborhood, and i guess you can get some crack for selling all that copper...

Posted: 01/26/2008 at 04:07PM

The house was in denver, CO - in a neighborhood Northwest of city park a few blocks.

The neighborhood is turning for the better, but block to block it varies

Posted: 01/30/2008 at 08:41AM

Thanks for the heads up. Those are things that some people typically don't put at the top of their list, copper pipes.