Yours is a question about MF valuations, not the Large Hadron Collider and theoretical particle physics.

Cheap carpet, cheap "hardwoods", particle board cabinets, crappy moldings hollow doors, cheap door knobs that jiggle and don't feel solid, etc etc.

Real Formica(tm) on plywood substrate is what you see serviceable in those 40 year old kitchens, not the home center thin laminate on particle board, which inevitably gets wet and self destructs.

I believe in doing things right and wanting to make a place my tenants can call home so out came the layers of particle board, drywall, and then plaster and lath.

DO NOT try to remove it yourself, it is against the law for one, can extremely dangerous for second, and you could invite a wonderful EPA fine and lawsuits by the neighbors that you expose to airborne particles.

It will be difficult to wash cheaper particle-board cabinets.  

Some are pretty low quality...they always LOOK nice when new, but are poor quality boxes made from OSB or particle board.

PRO TIP: Check particle size on filter before using chemicals.

This is another lazy landlord installment.This time I want to talk about sprucing up a vanityof you know the vanity that shows the smallest and tiniest scratcheswell I had such a vanity and paid pretty good money for it I was disappointed that it was made from that particle board so that when the veneer scratched off it looked horrible.I decided to take a little minwax stain and rubbed the entire vanity with itthe stain was close in color to the original finishwherever there was a scratch it got dark wherever the finish was the min wax stain just rubbed offI was very surprised by how well this worked.It was so simple I felt I had to share the tipeven if it doesent come out you haven't really wasted any time

All that I've ever seen at HD are made of particle or fiberboard.