Issues to tackle and issues to not tackle.

[Michael Kazee]

Hey all I am a rehabber and I am constatly looking at houses and in my area most are 50-140 years old. There are many times things like new roofs, windows, flooring, cabinets, drywall and things like that I don't mind tackling. I am looking at a house and the floors are all wavey and I am thinking I will need to rip it all up and possibly redo joists and sub-flooring. Can anyone tell me like on a scale of 1 to 10 how much headache this would be with paint being a 1 and 10 being raising a house digging a foundation and pouring a bsement and resetting the house.

Also if people have ideas of things they would suggest that other rehabber avoid please throw it in this discussion as well.

I will start it off for that. I suggest that if you are rehabbing an older home with plaster walls stay away from them if there were extensive wall paper covering unless you are ready to rip the plaster down and do drywall or you can rip the paper down and texture because I have found that back in the day most people did not use sizing and the paper destroys the finish and skim coating is mucho dinero.