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Originally Posted by navillusc   You are soooo right...and it sounds so much like a couple apartments I lived in and the first house I bought years ago...except for the 2 Great Danes, thank goodness!  One apartment had brown indoor-outdoor carpet in the kitchen. I decided to clean it...it was GREEN and I worked and worked on it...no kids then...and never got it clean!
The second was a duplex...pet urine on the walls with run streaks to the floor and torn up carpet. Flies, mosquitoes, spiders, and other bugs smashed on the walls and left there. It was horrendous, but we had just moved back from Germany with 2 kids and HAD to have some place to live...it would have been cleaner under a rock in a cow pasture...I think my hands were permanently lightened by the bleach...and they got to keep our deposit to replace the carpet and a piece of clamshell, and replace a door that there was nothing wrong with!
We didn't know we were buying a 'fix-er-up-er' till we moved into the first house we bought and found NOTHING worked...not even the kitchen faucet. To this day I turn on EVERY faucet and flush EVERY toilet...open every cabinet door...etc...in EVERY house I look at....pull at the corners of wall-to-wall carpet to see if it is or if it hides rotten flooring...etc. Found out later that floors needed replacement, the pool liner was shot and wouldn't hold water, the pump and filter needed replacement and so on...all because of their stupidity. All we did in that house was try to repair the damage. It was years before I was willing to look at a house I had the slightest inkling to punch out a wall...
I finally could handle remodeling and we got a fix-er-up-er for the lot and the location. No one will ever need to remind me NOT to do it again! 
And, yes, Kilz products are great...for lots of things.
Sounds like you have your hands full, and whatever happens next, I'm sure it will be self-defense... |
LMAO!
But this is what I've always done. This is my 7th home. Yep! You heard me right. 7.
I tend to go after foreclosures and short sales, gut the place room by room and replace everything. Nothing surprises me anymore. However, when I did my powder room, I had a few moments where I had to stand back and giggle.
The room at one point had a window to the outside. When the 3rd and 4th bays were added to the garage, they put a piece of plate glass mirror in the window opening. Not satisfied that it didn't disguise the fact that it ws a window, they added a dainty little lace curtain (circa 1982). At some point they wallpapered the room in a lovely plaid (also circa 1982) and instead of removing the curtain rod holders, they cut slits in the wallpaper and covered over them. What cracked me up is that they probably spent $50 for that plate glass mirror (and glued it in with construction adhesive). It cost me about $11 in sheet rock, 2x4's, and joint compound to cover it over properly.
The other thing that cracked me up is the linoleum flooring (now this was more circa 1988 or so). They ran out of the peel n stick vinyl tiles. Instead of spending $10 for another box, they glued a piece of baseboard to the floor.
I'm contemplating finding out where they live now, walk into their garage, take all their tools away, look them dead in the eye and say "NO! You can't have these!"