"dpb" wrote in message ...
** Frank ** wrote:
"dpb" wrote in message ...
Jim wrote:
I'm a landlord, own several houses I currently rent. Based on my
experience with Behr brand exterior house paint purchased from Home
Depot, I'll never buy that Behr brand guano or any paint from Home
Depot again!!
Guess results and opinions are like the proverbial appendages --
everybody has their own...

Used the Behr exterior on the barn here and it worked (spray
application) extremely well, covered well and has/is holding up well. I
have been quite satisfied.

Don't recall the name of the particular product, but it was the premium
line and not that much less than any other of similar quality -- about
$80/5-gal bucket iirc, including a volume discount of 10% or so,
five/six years ago, I forget which w/o looking it up. Retail was
probably pushing $20/gal then. I suspect if buy a $10/gal paint instead
of $20, one will find it doesn't stand up to the higher priced...

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Can't go by just the cost of the paint. The most expensive paint on a
rental (due to abuse) may only last 3 years while a cheaper brand will
last just as long. No need for a 20 year paint if you know you needed to
repaint every 5 years. Consumer Report did a comparison and surprised
(maybe not) to see one of the most expensive paints rated on the bottom.

Abuse has nothing whatsoever to do with the paint itself...

And while there have been some of the tests CR has done that have shown
one or two of the more expensive didn't perform for some reason, in
general it is true that the actual paint quality (in terms of amount of
pigment, etc.) is correlated w/ price, no unsurprisingly.

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OP was talking about paint on his rental units and for that high price paint
doesn't do any better than a good cheap one due to the accelerated ware and
tear. Its the same reason you don't install top of the line carpet in a
rental unit as you know you need to replace it every 7 years down the line.
Really if an expensive paint that could last 10 years in a rental, I'll be
the first one to buy it. Paint is cheap, labor is not. Maintaining rentals
since 1980 and used hundreds of gallons of paint since. Just my experience,
may not be yours - YMMV.