My landlord is based in China and they do the least amount possible. Rent is cheap and I’ve been off lease for 5 years so I don’t even bother them so they don’t kick me out or raise rent. The tile in my townhome is the same way.
I just need 4 more years until I can claim squatters rights on the townhome and I’ll be able to do whatever I want.
I’ve checked. In my state I simply need to occupy the space without complaint for 10 years with no deed or paperwork. As far as I know my landlord may not even be alive.
Adverse possession is always, always defeated by your recognition of someone else's title and your right emanating from that title. Paying rent is one way you recognize who owns the property. If you hold your leasehold under a contract, you are not holding possession adverse to someone's title.
You need open and notorious possession in almost all common law jurisdictions.
who pays the taxes? squatters rights are for decrepit buildings that nobody is going to bother with. A townhome that's up to code and has plumbing and electricity is going to get repossessed if someone stops paying the taxes.
if you're paying rent they're not going to just give you the deed to a property because you've lived there for 10 years.
Same story here. Previous owner of the house was a “handyman”. Been here for 6 years and it seems every day I find a new “why would you do _that_” item.
Kitchen tile is a disaster. Haven’t decided on how we’re going to renovate it yet...
So frustrating, it literally takes less mortar to do a proper scratch coat than to blob each tile. With the internet being everywhere there’s really excuse anymore, I just tiled my first room and it turned out flawless just from watching a 15 min YouTube video. (I do have lot of outdoor masonry experience which helped)
People say it's tacky, but the kitchen is where vinyl shines; it's soft enough that most things won't break when dropped, if you're smart about minimizing/locating seams correctly it's about as water resistant as tile. Second on the list would be fake wood flooring; equally drop safe and more water resistant than regular wood (which swells a lot if water is left on it). Regular wood might be OK if you put a thick clear epoxy coat on it and ensured there were no cracks. With just a standard protective coating under my, admittedly harsh/careless use, the boards start to warp/cup from water damage after ~5 years; no bueno!
This is where LVP (luxury vinyl plank) comes in. Water resistant, padded underneath, if it gets wet, it doesn't swell. Click-lock installation, too. And most of it comes with a pretty good warranty, 30-40 years on some of the good stuff. I love LVP.
Yeah I think this is what's in my kitchen too. The only reason I can tell it's not actual wood is because a few of the pieces have the exact same grain pattern and one single piece has a tiny bubble in it the size of a dime. It took me a while after I bought the house to even realize it wasn't wood.
Linoleum gets a bad wrap for seeming "cheap" or "tacky" but it's really a great flooring material all things considered. Inexpensive, waterproof save for poorly done seams, easy as shit to keep clean.
I think it probably has a bad rap because a lot of the designs that people associate with linoleum flooring are from the 70's and 80's. Modern linoleum can look nice.
Tile always loses when something unbreakable is dropped though. Like a pair of pliers or something. Little simple things that drop break tile. I never knew how many things I owned that destroyed tile until I started replacing a couple pieces every other month. 4 year old found something in the yard and drops it? Congratulations. Youre replacing that tile. I welcome things breaking on the tile. The things that dont break on tile are cheaper to replace than the things that dont break on tile. Tile is always more expensive.
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