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[quote=Anonymous]Also contractors love to rip off young couples first home with dual income and don’t know how to do repairs.

Literally when I listed house for sale the nonsense quotes I got for repairs. One young couple got a 20,000 quote on a so called roof and foundation issue. I called two guys and told them since house empty I was flipping It and needed a fix on a tight budget for cash. Guy threw out $3,700. Buy booked for three weeks. I ended up spending 20 hours on the weekend with $300 in materials did it myself only cause wanted to move house.

It passed inspection. So what was crack in foundation. I had oil heat, someone pulled the pipe where oil came into house and did bad patch job. I fixed that easy. Roof issue. Black tar around deck railings needed to be re tarred. Needed some new flashing nailing in and a part off gutter.

A older house is a money pit if you call contractors. My favorite I had water flood in kitchen. Insulation behind cabinets wet got a 32k estimate, rip out cabinets, pull Sheetrock, replace cabinets.

I then realized it is external wall and vinyl siding. I bought a five dollar tool removed siding, pulled off plywood. Then removed wet insulation, mold spayed. Let it dry out a bit. Put new insulation in and put back up board and siding. $100 bucks if insulation.

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