Since the place was apparently a rental that hasn’t been used since the late 90s, the outside was in pretty bad shape. Chipped and peeling paint galore. The strange thing is the house has vinyl siding but only in some areas, like whoever started it never bothered to finish. Go figure.

(Taken before the wood was scraped and painted)

Anyway, the painting was actually done before the purchase as part of an agreement with the seller. Some guy was hired to scrape and paint the parts that weren’t covered with the vinyl siding. I think he did a crappy job, but he was cheap and you get what you pay for.

Nonetheless, it looks better than it did when it had peeling paint everywhere. Even if some of the windows don’t open (painted shut), he slacked on a second coat at the rear of the house that is out of sight, spilled drops of paint on some windows, didn’t fully scrape off old paint in some areas before painting over it (for that wonderful bumpy look), and didn’t clean up all the paint chips that were scraped off.

The windows need to be replaced anyway and I’d like to finish the siding, so the paint is (hopefully) just a temporary cosmetic thing.

Total Cost: $500. Seller forked in $500 for a total of $1000 for the guy who did the crappy job.

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