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Originally posted by Pagewizard_YKS
Big cracks are what I'm talking about. I thought I made that clear.
Jacks and shoring can go a long ways towards providing temporary reinforcement and support for virtually anything. Jacks are used to reinforce the floor or ceiling, and shoring helps hold up walls. If you do it this way, it's advisable to fix damaged supports one at a time and reinforce the area with a jack, not rip the supports out all at once and hold the whole building up with jacks. Russ Whitney (the guy who wrote Building Wealth) gave me this idea when he wrote in his book that he once bought a house with massive termite damage in the supporting beams in the basement. Other buyers were turned off by the damage, so the house was on the market for a long time and it was bargain priced. All Whitney had to do was use portable jacks to hold up the ceiling while the supporting beams were replaced. It wasn't too expensive, and he resold the house and made $15,000 on it. That gave me the idea that if jacks worked for that, then it might be good for other things, too.
Generally, if the damn building looks like it's about to collapse and is sagging to one direction, or if the floor slants down towards a corner in the interior of the house, don't buy it unless you just want the land underneath it.
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Big cracks are what I'm talking about. I thought I made that clear.
Jacks and shoring can go a long ways towards providing temporary reinforcement and support for virtually anything. Jacks are used to reinforce the floor or ceiling, and shoring helps hold up walls. If you do it this way, it's advisable to fix damaged supports one at a time and reinforce the area with a jack, not rip the supports out all at once and hold the whole building up with jacks. Russ Whitney (the guy who wrote Building Wealth) gave me this idea when he wrote in his book that he once bought a house with massive termite damage in the supporting beams in the basement. Other buyers were turned off by the damage, so the house was on the market for a long time and it was bargain priced. All Whitney had to do was use portable jacks to hold up the ceiling while the supporting beams were replaced. It wasn't too expensive, and he resold the house and made $15,000 on it. That gave me the idea that if jacks worked for that, then it might be good for other things, too.
Generally, if the damn building looks like it's about to collapse and is sagging to one direction, or if the floor slants down towards a corner in the interior of the house, don't buy it unless you just want the land underneath it.
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Why must you talk like a ****in expert in the field when you have absolutly zero experience in buying, repairing, and reselling houses? Seriously??? You say things like "such and such can be used to do such and such"...how do you know this?? All your information is from third party sources, and I think you are in for a real slap in the face when you actually start trying to do stuff like this. I hate to be harsh but your attitude is just so damn annoying that it sickens me.