All Forum Posts by: Victoria Allen

Hello Bigger Pockets landlords and flippers,

Does anyone have a solution or products to recommend to get a molded tub floor clean? 

It looks like a dirt colored substance was ground into the textured floor surface but it doesn't wash off. I have seen this in toilets also. Common household cleaners don't work. I don't want to yellow the tub with bleach even if it did work.

Thanks for any helpful ideas that doesn't have me replacing the whole tub.

My opinion is that the building codes are not always to limit us citizens but to protect us. If there were an emergency, such as a fire, one needs to get out as quickly as possible. Therefore 2 options to get out/2 egresses, encase one is blocked by the fire. As a real estate agent, I sold a house where the owner had built a room in the garage (to rent out to students) with one window that was a legit egress but no heat source other than a portable electric heater (another "bedroom" requirement) and the door that led into the garage. This is not a legitimate bedroom where people should be sleeping for safety reasons. I personally would not want to rent such a room and therefore I will not rent out such a room to others. 

I appreciate you posting this question because none of us start with all the knowledge. There are angles we just haven't thought to think about. When I was first starting out as a real estate agent, I had a 17 yr. veteran agent, tell me more than once, "well, I haven't seen that situation before." So I figured that if a 17 yr. veteran in the real estate business hadn't seen all the challenges and angles I shouldn't expect myself or others to have seen/experienced it all.