All Forum Posts by: Genny Li

 Soooo she's going to cat-nap the animal and hopes the BF will follow?

Is it the PAINT or the TEXTURE? Two different solutions.

You can usually get away with spot-painting flat paint from the same can or a flat white ceiling paint. In the condo I just bought, though, the ceiling was slightly off white and the paint-overs were white, and that worked about as well as you'd think.

Your city will have certain standards, and so will your neighborhood.  The city buy in is 4.  My parents' city next door is 3.  My parents' NEIGHBORHOOD is 2, because the grad students were trashing the yards because they didn't water or mow regularly, and the neighborhood also needed to throw out a frat that was misbehaving.

1) Reviews but 2) examples of their work.

Usually, the owner of a property gets fined if trashcans are mismanaged.  Usually, the owner of the property has language to move that fine to tenants if they are dorks and mismanage the trashcans.

If she wants to donate to a charity, donate to a charity. Your property isn't a charity. It's that simple.

As far as removal, it's actually EASY to remove asbestos safely from a technical standpoint.  You just have to keep it wet and produce no dust.  From a PITB, standpoint, though, it is not so easy.  It's mucky and gross, and Tyvek is hot, as I learned doing my own foam insulation.

 PEX is a top modern system when done end-run into a manifold with zero connections behind drywall.  It will outlast copper in acid water systems by decades, and it has more freeze resistance than anything, plus if worse comes to worst, the copper thieves have no reason to destroy the house while the tenants are on a 2 week vacay.

If it's a rental, I'd never touch it.  Just paint over it. It's safe UNTIL you start mucking with it.

Also, most popcorn ceilings aren't asbestos.  

I can't think of a reason why I'd ever redo any popcorn ceiling in a rental, unless I bought one that was basically a gut job at pennies on the dollar.

Even on a flip, unless not having a popcorn ceiling raises the price a bunch, I'd leave it alone.

Really.  Can't make this up.  I had to coach him through changing it over the phone because the closets have linear fluorescents, and he didn't know what to do.

I'm focusing on the day job now, but I had to share.  (Keep in mind that I rent to college students.  They're babies, even though they're all in STEM....)