Here's a few pics from a rental property repair I just completed. This house was dragged two miles by a mule team in the 1930s, after it was purchased for $7. The catch was that it was located on land that was to be flooded to make a lake and thus had to be moved. The buyer also took the very large barn for $5 and did the same thing.
My now-deceased uncle did a lot of plumbing repairs that were sub-par, to say the least, such as not bothering to even glue the drain pipe plumbing pieces together. He just stuck them and left them. The tenant complained of soft floors. It turns out, the toilet was cracked and leaking, the bathtub drain was poorly installed and leaking badly, and the drain pipes had come apart so that the sink was draining into the dirt under the house.
I ripped out all the water damage, and it looked like this. I tried to tell the tenant that this "open floor plan" was very trendy at the moment, but she wanted a floor, believe it or not.
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