Janet, i feel you pain, i was painting the house when i was pregnant trying to get some of the rooms done before the baby was born, and with the baby on the way we had no extra money to hire anyone, to busy buying baby stuff.

I told Ricky that I would show him the correct way to paint and that he could only do the first coat until he was really good at it....LOLOL...I shouldn't be so picky, but I am. I'll do the second coat to fix whatever is wrong with the second coat.

Get this....the guy that gave me the high estimate called today. He lowered his estimate to $750 if all he had to do was paint. Well, now of course I don't trust the booger, so I'll still continue on with my plans for Ricky and I to finish it. Geesh...can't find good help in this town.

Janet, I think this is yet another area where you and I are alike. No way will I hire someone to do what I CAN do myself... even if it almost kills me to do it. lol

Getting Ricky to help is a great idea! If he can move the furniture for you, it will give you more energy to tape up and to do the second coat.

He's such a good kid!

I agree - $800 for a few rooms, with you supplying the paint, moving the furniture and taping is ridiculous. Bunch of crooks!

Can you imagine paying $7000 for a paint job? I could buy a decent used car for
that. She is a dear friend, and is used to living large, so I kept quiet about it.
She and her ex just sold their 2 bedroom apartment, in a very exclusive part of Brooklyn, for about $900,000. The people who bought it then gutted it and renovated. Crazy money!

Have a ball at the hot dog fair. How many hot dogs are you planning on eating?
I'd try for 16 over to days.

ROFLMBO!!!!!! I never eat hotdogs outside of home very often...too afraid I'll get sick. I just don't trust eating hotdogs in hot humid weather...LOL..so I won't have any, but may have another elephant ear...yummy.

Must be nice to sell something for $900,000, even nicer to be able to afford to buy something for that much and then tear it apart...LOL...man...I screwed up somewhere along the line.

Totaling the prices of all the homes I've owned in my lifetime wouldn't equal $900,000! Gotta remember it's Location location location.

My first house was a 3 bedroom right next to a golf course and park with a pool and we paid $11,300 for it! LOL My how times have changed!

I'm really glad my friend got half of that $900,000, but I have to say that it makes me uncomfortable that this young couple spent so much money on an apartment and are spending even more to renovate it. It's so excessive, that it gives me a really negative feeling.

My friend who sold it feels the same way I do. It's like "Get over yourselves."

Janet, if I lived closer I'd help you :) I'm pretty much a painting expert after flipping Kyle's whole house! And you would only have to pay me in lunch! :D
Anyways, I hope it all works out!

Lindsey you are such a sweetheart!!! All you ladies are. Don't worry about me...I'll get the painting done and once everything is completely done, I will take pictures share with all of you.

Just take your time Janet, it will get done, don't overdue it. it took me five years, plus alot of other stuff inbetween, plus i switch the colors too.. i'm picky... but i got 4 coats of paint on all my walls.. they were so yellow, i think the guy who lived there before me smoked in the house... we don't. we smoke outside or in the basement..