We’ve spent another week cleaning up our rental property. It is starting to really come along. Are you ready for some before and mid-renovation pictures? Be warned – these aren’t for the squeamish.

My area of focus has been the basement. I now refer to myself as the Poop Queen because I’ve been scraping 7 years of cat poop and vomit off the floors.

Here are some basement photos when we went in after after our tenet ran off.

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Here are those same places now

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While I’ve been doing that, the husband and occasional helpers are upstairs painting.

This was Day 1.

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It’s starting to look better with the walls redone below. Obviously the carpet still needs to come out. Yes, she was using it as an ashtray.

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We are making progress.


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