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[quote=Anonymous]I sold a rental house in Jan 2025 that had had a renter who smoked inside for 40 years. The house was built in 1917.

The realtor and I both knew the house might be a tear down due to the age. Realtor said I needed to remediate the smoke in the house such that a realtor and potential buyer could walk in the house and not gag. Realtor said not to do anything else.

I had my property manager find some guys who could do the work.

Realtor said to remove all soft goods: carpeting and window treatments. He said to paint all wood, walls, and ceiling with kilz primer and then to paint everything.

Property manager told me in the year round rental houses and air bnb's that you have the painter spray the kilz primer through the spray gun on wood floors, trim, walls and ceilings. After it dries you spray the wood floors, trim, wall and ceiling with a semi gloss paint all one color sprayed through the paint gun.

Cost was:  $5000 to the guys to do the work which included tear out of window treatments and carpeting and haul to the dump

Cover windows

Use paint sprayer to spray kilz primer on wood floors, trim, walls and ceiling.

Use paint sprayer to spray white semi gloss paint on wood floors, trim walls and ceiling.

$5000 to the work guys
$500 (10%) to my property management company to find the work guys

House was around 1000-1200 square foot with one bathroom, kitchen, 2 bedrooms.
Entire interior was painted.

My first 2 real estate purchase deals fell through.  First two guys were going to flip the house. However, there was too much wrong in the inspection reports.

Third deal went through.  Third guy was going to tear down the house and put in 6 air bnbs.

House sold for $700,000 as a tear down.

Talk to 3 realtors and see what they say.

Realtors can give you local contacts for estate auction houses.
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