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Hey ChristineR, welcome to the DIY community. *wink*
We have 4 rental houses and a 4plex and we do a make ready between tenants. When a tenant moves out, my husband goes down and cleans it up, does whatever maintenance is needed (or supervises for contract work) and gets it ready for the next occupation. We don’t do ANY work while a tenant is in the house, it voids our liability protection. We have a property manager to arrange all repairs or deal with any issues while there is a tenant. We only do the make readies between occupancies.
We have been gradually changing ALL the floors to TrafficMaster Allure vinyl plank flooring, that we get from Home Depot. We use the same color (Light Oak) throughout all the houses. It goes down well and lasts fantastically, even in high traffic areas and bathrooms.
We use 3 colors of paint throughout all the houses as well, a light beige for all interior walls, a medium beige for all exterior walls, and a warm ivory/cream color for doors, door frames, windows, and soffits. No matter what house/apartment we’re working on, it’s the same product. We buy Behr interior for inside, and Behr exterior for outside. It’s a high-grade expensive paint product, but dang, does it last! We just had to do a make ready for a house after having tenants in it for just over a year, and the paint barely looked worn. Little extra upfront saved days of labor and cost of having to repaint the house.
Reports back from our tenants are that they love the floors, and they definitely prefer the not-white-rental-walls. The beige is kind of a neutral that goes with anything, so folks who don’t like white walls are happy with it, and folks who do like white walls find that it’s neutral enough that they’re happy with it too. We also use wall corner guards on all walls that have a jutting edge, such as the entryway to passages to the bedrooms. Folks regularly chip the corners when they move furniture, or kids hit edges with skateboards or backpacks. The investment protection and time saved in installing edge protectors is huge. I’m not sure if the linked guards are the ones we use, I think ours are screw in type, but I could be wrong. I don’t actually do the work, just pay for the products! LOL
Kitchen and bathroom counters are painted with Kitchen Counter paint. It’s a bit of a pain to get used to using, but the finish is terrific, and it’s hugely cheaper than replaced counters or even replaced formica. Ikea kitchen cabinets are also great if you need to do a complete remodel.
Sliding double doors are always replaced with French double doors. Sliders are massively problematic and also a security threat. We’ve found that all the houses that have new French doors are much less of an issue going forwards.
We find a lot of plumbing materials at our local dump. You can’t imagine the expensive stuff folks throw away! Basin is cracked? Remove the basin with the complete plumbing still installed, throw it away. We take the basin, remove the plumbing, and then take the basin back to the dump. Paying the $6 dump fee for the basin is nothing when we have a $200 faucet set for free! I kid you not! Check out our awesome freebie!
Just throwing in out of left field here – I’ve noticed that when I LIST in a category, I start to pick up sales in that category. So listing activity as well as sales activity helps to bump up ranking, perhaps?
Welcome Liz, great to have you! You’ve been added to the spreadsheet.
Post photos of the dance. No photos – it didn’t happen! π
I use brown packaging tape to cover marks on boxes. Generally I have to do a few layers, but it’s less obtrusive than the colored eBay tape, and it’s cheap and readily available at Walmart or any office store. For most Amazon boxes and any others with a lot of external markings, I turn the box inside out.
If you really want a roll, though, I don’t mind letting you have one of mine. Color preference? I have bright yellow or deep purple left. Where are you located for shipping cost calcs?
Retro, perhaps it has improved? My stuff sticks like baby shit to a blanket!
I have to go measure my racks! Fingers crossed these babies fit! WANT!
Just found a hidden stash I’d forgotten about! WTF? Noooooooooooooooooooooooo…………
Sigh.
So, is my maths correct here… Retro Treasures has 1,500 items in 18 linear feet and Winchester38 has 600 items on 25 linear feet (300 linear inches.)
Did I get that right?
If so, totes seem to be better for those with a space constraint.
04/02/2019 at 2:37 pm in reply to: Batch convert photos to square with borders for Poshmark on iphone. Finally!! #59616Wish there was an android or desktop version π
Please do not post in this thread, it has become too long and unwieldy.
Please go to thread #2 for future posts.
Hey ladies! Welcome to the first week of the second quarter! Hard to fathom we’re down 3 months already!
To my chagrin, I missed that a bunch of items had serial numbers in last week’s photo session, so I have to redo the photos. I did half of them, the balance will be listed this week, so I have only 11 items listed for this week. I’m such a doofus some days! However, I did get a vintage sewing machine up and it has 75 views and 5 watchers already, so I’m hopeful for a sale soon. Only have 5 more machines to list that The Machine has gotten through his workshop already. Honestly, that man’s middle name must be Productivity!
As we’ve all posted already for this week, and Sam appears to have dropped off the Challenge, the Spreadsheet is updated. Winner is Vintage Lacy.
This will be the last post of this thread, as it is pretty long and we’re starting a new quarter. Go look for thread #2 for future posts. Started it so that we can pop straight across to it.
Yeah, I got the prohibited items email, emailed them, and they gave me the “we were told to” response. However, they also gave me a to-do on how to move the item to a reserved folder so that they don’t auto upload again. I use Bonanza for their free image burner.
It’s possible that SAS is going to move along to eBay soon, but Bonanza is on the Google search, so whomever is doing this started with a Google search.
LOL! Just found a funny article about egg cups and the first photo shows a beheaded egg and soldiers.
https://skillet.lifehacker.com/since-americans-dont-use-egg-cups-heres-how-to-eat-a-s-1796854693
To the author, IRL we eat the whole egg, every bit of it. In the movies they don’t because all the actors are on a diet! π
To both debitendcredits and Ryanne, your ceramic items look like Asian bowls.
https://www.japancentre.com/en/pages/58-japanese-tableware
Chinese tea cups are tiny, usually less than 2″, holding about 2 sips of tea. It’s gongfu cha, or the art of drinking tea, where you savor each mouthful.
Rice bowls and soup bowls fit into the palm of your hand, and are usually wide mouthed. Chinese tea cups are also usually wider than Japanese tea cups, which are more often straight sided.
Egg cups are usually footed, with a tapered bowl.
This is to keep the egg in an upright position. You place the egg, pointy side down, into the egg cup, then use a knife in a quick motion to slice the top off. If you have your egg hard boiled, you have little servings of salt and pepper, season your egg, and then eat it with a spoon, adding seasoning as you work your way down. A lot of folks prefer their eggs soft boiled and served with “soldiers”, slices of toast cut into thin fingers that can be dipped into the egg. Soldier eaters don’t always season the eggs first. But it’s all according to taste, of course.
Growing up we had egg cups and egg warmers, tiny little “beanies” that were popped onto the eggs in their cups to keep the eggs warm until everyone could get to the table.
I got the multi-colored pack and it works well and didn’t smell at all
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