Asset Management & Recovery: Stinky - Stinky

Gryphon USA, Ltd services clients through Gryphon Asset Management, Gryphon Realty Advisors and Gryphon Auction Group. Gryphon Asset Management manages operating entities and undertakes liquidation management in numerous business lines. Gryphon Realty Advisors is comprised of three divisions all working together; Residential, Commercial and Management. Projects range from single family investments and owner occupant reresentation to apartments and commercial complex disposition. Gryphon Auction Group assists clients with the sale of real property as well as commercial equipment.

Stinky - Stinky

There have been a few posts lately about bad odors in properties and how to get them out.  This is a continuous fight in our rentals and reo listings here in Columbus.

Sometimes it is an overpowering pet smell and there is no way to get rid of it other than to rip out the carpet and pad and start over.  If you are going to do this, I strongly suggest that you take a few additional steps.

  1. 1. Wash the decking with water and Pine Sol.  Let it dry.
  2. 2. Paint the entire floor with Kilz primer.  I like 2 coats.

If you are trying to freshen up a property I like to use a product called OdorXit.  It costs about $25 for a small bottle, but you can get about 4 houses out of a single bottle.  Mix with water according to the instructions and apply with a garden sprayer.  Just spray it on the carpet or other flooring.  It will kill smells and leave a faint odor of bubble gum.

This is not the magic bullet as you also need to clean the place!!

 

Do you have questions about distressed assets, receivership or bankruptcy sales, auctions?  Email me at rfk@gryphonusa.com and I'll try to answer it in an upcoming post.

Richard F. Kruse is the President of Columbus, Ohio based Gryphon USA, Ltd. (www.gryphonusa.com).  The Gryphon Organization includes Gryphon Asset Management providing receivership and consulting services in the distressed marketplace, United Country Gryphon Realty & Auction Group (www.ucohiorealty.com & www.ucohioauctions.com) providing real estate brokerage and auction services throughout Ohio and OnlineAuctionUSA.com (www.onlineauctionusa.com) providing commercial asset liquidations from the Midwest to East Coast. 

United Country Gryphon Realty & Auction Career Opportunities Available.  Call 614-885-0020 x 17

13 comments • Rich Kruse • July 22 2007 10:40AM

Comments

I've seen houses where the pet stain went through the carpet AND the pad and even into the subfloor.  I think you have to get to the source or it may not do any good to replace carpet and padding. 
Posted by Wayzata Lakes Realty: Eric Kodner Sells Luxury Homes over 3 years ago
Both great products - I have used them both with great success - I have a client painting with KILZ today as a matter of fact...
Posted by John Occhi. ePRO, Five Star Certified, Riverside Cnty REO Expert, 951.443.6259 (Excellence in Real Estate Tm @ Allison James Estates & Homes) over 3 years ago
Kilz works amazingly....our son has a house where one of the toilets backed up and sprayed like a gizer all over the bathroom...my husband being the great dad he is went in and cleaned it all up for him, repainted using the kilz and then repainted over that.  Oh what we don't do for our kids...but our son lets him know he's forever greatful and that's all that counts!
Posted by Mary Warren (Referring Agent) over 3 years ago
Why does it smell like bubblegum?  Is this intentional or just how the chemicals smell?  Also, is this stuff safe for kids and pets?
Posted by Chad Blessinger (FC Tucker Kerstiens Realty) over 3 years ago
Not sure.  It just smells a little like gum to me.  I would check their website at www.odorxit.com for info on safety.  I only have used it in vacants.
Posted by Rich Kruse (Gryphon USA, Ltd.) over 3 years ago

Evil (Rich)...

We bought a house last year and we knew we were going to have to gut the place before we could rent it out. But what we didn't expect was the dog pee on one of the walls in a bedroom.

No matter what I did I could not get rid of the small. I finally told the handyman to rip the wall out and replace it. Once that pee gets into the sheet rock there's no getting it out.

Do you believe it...The previous owner of the house kept his male dog locked in the bedroom all the time. Yah. I know. You've seen worse :)

TLW...ROAR!

Posted by "The Lovely Wife" (Broker Bryant's Wife) The One And Only TLW. (President-Tutas Towne Realty, Inc.) over 3 years ago
Ok... I have this funny picture in my head of you in a house with a house attached to a bottle watering the carpet... thanks for the tip...
Posted by Central Oregon Real Estate | Broker Thesa Chambers, Licensed in Oregon (Prudential NW Properties Sunriver) over 3 years ago

Rich,

How about a house where the owner passed away, the dogs were in the home at the time and it wasn't discovered for awhile?  Kilz or OdorXit? 

Fran

Posted by Fran Gatti - Realtor®, CDPE®, RDCPro®, Crescent City CA Real Estate (RE/MAX Coastal Redwoods) over 3 years ago
I read about a product called nanozorb for when someone has passed away and left odors. A little pricey, but probably well worth it.
Posted by Karen Hurst ~ Principal Broker ~ Warwick ~ Rhode Island (Stonehurst Realty) over 3 years ago

Hi Rich,

Been there, done that. Only stopped to say hello.

This blog does inspire me, I need to write about my first sale and the amazing disappearing, 12 foot, naked woman! It's a story about a surprise gift from the seller's former tenant.

Bill

Posted by William J Archambault Jr (The Real Estate Investment Institute ) over 3 years ago
Good, quality information. Thanks, Rich.
Posted by John Evarts (Classic Property Management of Santa Clarita) over 3 years ago
My brother is a funeral director and they use tomato juice to cut the smell of dead humans on them and the house. In his business a little natural enzyme beats another chemical....Kuckily my dead person in the house rotted away on the couch....did somone say yardsale?
Posted by Paul Moye, Broker, ABR, GRI, SRES, SFR (Benchmark Realty) over 2 years ago

Thank you for the advice! Very good to know! Thanks for sharing that with all of us. We definitely deal with tenants that leave the place with a pretty foul smell!

Posted by Golden Estate Management (Golden Estate Property Management) about 1 year ago

Participate

(optional)
What does the graphic say?