What Every Buyer and Homeowner in Fort Worth, Arlington, Grand Prairie, Grapevine, Colleyville, North Richland Hills, Bedford, Hurst, Euless, Watauga, and Haltom City Needs to Know
By Mark Hewitt · Hewitt Group at Real Broker, LLC
Lead paint is the most federally regulated residential hazard in the north Texas older home — a building material whose use in residential painting from the earliest construction era through 1978 produced the concentrated presence in the pre-1978 housing stock that the federal law specifically addresses through the disclosure requirements, the renovation regulations, and the abatement standards whose compliance the purchase, the ownership, and the renovation of the older north Texas home most specifically requires. For buyers who are evaluating the established homes in the eleven-city service area whose development before 1978 produced the housing stock whose painted surfaces may contain the lead-based paint whose presence the federal law requires the seller to disclose and whose management the EPA's specific regulations most directly address, understanding what lead paint is, where it is found, what the health concern is, what the federal disclosure requirements are, how to test for it, and what the management options are is the foundational education whose completeness allows the most informed and most legally compliant purchase decision.
The lead paint conversation requires the specific distinction between the lead paint whose presence in the intact, well-maintained painted surface does not create the immediate health hazard and the lead paint whose deteriorated condition — the peeling, the chipping, the chalking, and the friction surface's dust generation — creates the specific exposure pathway whose access by the young child produces the most serious and the most specifically documented lead poisoning consequence in the residential setting. This distinction — intact lead paint versus deteriorated lead paint — is the most important single concept whose understanding transforms the buyer's response from the generalized alarm to the specifically calibrated assessment whose application to the individual property's specific condition produces the most health-conscious and the most financially sound management decision.
The federal law's 1978 threshold — the year of the Consumer Product Safety Commission's lead paint ban in the residential painting market — is the most immediately useful screening criterion whose application to the north Texas housing stock identifies the homes whose lead paint probability most specifically warrants the disclosure, the testing, and the management planning that this guide provides. The home built before 1978 is the lead paint candidate; the home built after 1978 is the home whose lead paint probability is dramatically reduced but not entirely eliminated by the presence of the pre-1978 painted components whose replacement may not have occurred during the subsequent decades of the post-1978 occupancy.
This guide provides the complete lead paint education for the north Texas older home buyer and homeowner — what lead paint is, where it is found, what the health concern is, what the federal disclosure requirements are, how to test for it, what the management options are with specific costs, and what the specific regulatory framework whose compliance the renovation most specifically requires. This content is for educational purposes and does not constitute legal or professional advice. The specific lead paint assessment and management requires the engagement of a certified lead inspector and a certified lead abatement contractor whose professional evaluation and regulated procedures provide the assessment and the management whose conclusions this guide's educational framework supports.
Mark Hewitt and the Hewitt Group at Real Broker, LLC provide every older home buyer in the eleven-city service area with the lead paint education, the certified lead inspector referrals, and the transaction management that the lead paint condition assessment specifically requires.
What Lead Paint Is and Why It Was Used
Lead paint is the paint formulation whose incorporation of the lead compounds — primarily the lead carbonate (white lead), the lead sulfate, and the lead chromate (chrome yellow) — as the pigment and the drying agent produced the specific performance characteristics whose combination made lead-based paint the preferred residential painting material from the earliest commercial paint production through the Consumer Product Safety Commission's 1978 residential ban.
The lead compound's contribution to the paint's performance reflects three specific properties whose combination the lead-free alternatives of the era could not match. The opacity whose coverage of the substrate in the single coat application reduced the labor cost of the painting process. The durability whose resistance to the UV radiation, the moisture, and the physical wear produced the painted surface whose service life exceeded the lead-free formulation's performance. And the drying speed whose acceleration of the paint film's cure reduced the application-to-occupancy interval that the residential painting project's timeline most directly reflected.
The residential lead paint's use was the industry standard rather than the exceptional application — the painting contractor who was applying the lead-based paint to the pre-1978 north Texas home was using the standard commercial product whose specification the paint manufacturer's formulation and the construction industry's procurement most specifically defined. The homeowner whose pre-1978 home retains the original painted surfaces has the lead-based paint whose presence reflects the era's standard practice rather than any specific deficiency in the original construction's quality.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission's 1978 ban on the lead-based paint in the residential and the consumer-use applications was the specific regulatory action whose effect on the residential painting market was the most immediate elimination of the new lead paint installation — but whose limitation to the new product prohibits new lead paint while leaving the existing lead paint in the pre-1978 housing stock in place as the management obligation whose compliance the subsequent regulatory framework most specifically addresses.
Where Lead Paint Is Found in the North Texas Older Home
The lead paint's location in the north Texas older home reflects the painting practice of the era — every painted surface whose application occurred before 1978 is the potential lead paint location whose specific assessment the pre-purchase testing most directly addresses. The specific surfaces whose lead paint probability the experienced inspector most specifically prioritizes include:
The interior trim surfaces — the window frames, the window sills, the door frames, the door casings, the baseboards, and the crown molding whose painting during the era's most common decorating practice incorporated the lead-based paint most frequently reflect the highest lead content concentration in the typical pre-1978 north Texas home. The window sill and the window frame are the specific interior trim locations whose friction surface — the repeated window operation whose sliding and the sash's contact with the frame — creates the lead paint dust generation that the operational use most specifically produces and whose detection in the dust wipe sample the lead testing most specifically confirms.
The interior wall surfaces — the plaster walls and the drywall whose multiple layers of paint whose application over the decades of the pre-1978 occupancy may include the lead-based formulation beneath the more recent non-lead layers — are the surface category whose lead paint presence the XRF testing most efficiently identifies through the multiple layers whose accumulated composition the instrument most specifically detects.
The exterior painted surfaces — the wood siding, the exterior trim, the porch surfaces, and the exterior window frames whose painting during the era's exterior maintenance most commonly used the lead-based formulation whose durability in the exterior environment made it the most specifically appropriate choice for the outdoor application — are the lead paint location whose weathering deterioration creates the soil contamination whose pathway to the young child's ingestion the exterior management most specifically addresses.
The built-in components — the kitchen cabinets, the built-in bookshelves, the built-in closets, and the other fixed interior components whose painting during the original construction or the subsequent renovation incorporated the lead-based formulation — are the specific locations whose condition assessment and whose renovation planning most directly require the lead paint testing whose confirmation prevents the unprotected disturbance.
The Health Concern: The Specific Pathway and the Population at Risk
The health concern from the lead paint in the residential setting is the most specifically age-dependent health concern in the older home buyer's assessment — the young child whose developing nervous system is the most biologically susceptible to the lead's neurotoxic effect and whose hand-to-mouth behavior creates the most direct ingestion pathway from the lead paint dust and the lead paint chips is the specific population whose protection the federal regulatory framework most specifically addresses.
The lead's neurotoxic effect on the developing nervous system — the disruption of the neurological development whose expression in the reduced IQ, the learning disabilities, the behavioral problems, and the developmental delays represents the most documented and the most specifically age-sensitive health consequence of the lead exposure — is the biological mechanism whose irreversibility at the established blood lead level thresholds creates the most urgently protective regulatory response. The Centers for Disease Control's blood lead reference value of 3.5 micrograms per deciliter — whose reduction from the prior 5 micrograms per deciliter threshold reflects the scientific evidence's continued identification of the health effects at progressively lower exposure levels — is the specific standard whose application to the child's blood lead screening most directly determines the intervention's necessity.
The specific exposure pathways whose management the lead paint regulatory framework most specifically addresses include the lead dust whose generation from the deteriorating lead paint surface, the friction surface's operational wear, and the renovation activity's disturbance creates the respirable and the ingestible particle size whose access to the young child's blood stream through the inhalation and the hand-to-mouth ingestion is the most common residential exposure route. The lead paint chip whose ingestion by the toddler whose hand-to-mouth behavior is the most developmentally normal activity at the 1 to 3 year age range creates the most concentrated single-exposure dose whose severity the chip's lead content most directly determines.
The adult's lead exposure risk from the intact residential lead paint is substantially lower than the young child's risk — the adult's more developed neurological system, the adult's less frequent hand-to-mouth behavior, and the adult's lower dust ingestion rate together produce the dramatically reduced biological susceptibility and the dramatically reduced ingestion pathway exposure that the young child's specific vulnerability most directly contrasts. The specific adult population whose elevated lead exposure risk warrants the specific mention includes the pregnant woman whose placental transfer of the lead to the developing fetus creates the prenatal exposure risk whose biological mechanism mirrors the direct child exposure's neurological susceptibility.
The Federal Disclosure Requirements: The Most Important Legal Dimension
The federal lead paint disclosure requirements — the specific legal obligations whose compliance the purchase, the rental, and the renovation of the pre-1978 residential property most specifically requires — are the most important legal dimension of the lead paint topic for the north Texas older home buyer and the seller whose understanding before the transaction begins prevents the non-compliance whose consequences the federal enforcement most specifically produces.
The Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act of 1992 — whose specific provisions create the federal framework for the lead paint disclosure in the residential real estate transaction — establishes three specific obligations whose compliance is required for every sale and every rental of the pre-1978 residential property:
The disclosure obligation — the seller's and the landlord's requirement to disclose the known information about the lead-based paint and the lead-based paint hazards in the property before the contract is signed — is the most immediately applicable obligation whose content the seller's completion of the federal Lead-Based Paint Disclosure Form most specifically satisfies. The seller who has had the property's lead paint professionally assessed has the actual knowledge whose disclosure the form most specifically requires. The seller who has no knowledge of the property's lead paint condition — whose ownership of the pre-1978 home has not included the professional assessment — discloses the absence of knowledge rather than the presence of lead paint whose testing the seller has not performed.
The records and reports obligation — the seller's and the landlord's requirement to provide the buyer or the tenant with any available records or reports pertaining to the lead-based paint in the property — is the documentation obligation whose compliance the professional assessment reports, the prior testing results, and the abatement records whose provision to the buyer most specifically satisfies.
The buyer's opportunity to conduct an inspection — the specific provision whose requirement that the seller allow the buyer a 10-day period to conduct the lead paint inspection before the contract is finalized creates the specific buyer protection whose waiver is permitted but whose exercise the Hewitt Group most specifically recommends for every purchase of the pre-1978 north Texas home — is the third federal obligation whose compliance confirms the buyer's informed consent to the purchase with the complete lead paint information available.
The federal penalties for the non-compliance with the lead paint disclosure requirements — the civil penalties of up to $21,326 per violation and the criminal penalties whose application to the knowing or the willful non-compliance creates the most significant legal consequence — are the specific enforcement mechanisms whose magnitude most directly motivates the complete disclosure compliance.
The Texas Lead Paint Regulatory Framework
The Texas Department of State Health Services' lead-based paint program — whose specific licensing requirements for the lead inspectors, the risk assessors, the abatement contractors, and the renovation firms whose compliance with the federal EPA requirements the state program most specifically enforces — is the state regulatory framework whose requirements the north Texas older home renovation most specifically needs to address alongside the federal standard.
The EPA's Renovation, Repair and Painting Rule — the RRP Rule whose specific application to the renovation activities that disturb the lead-based paint in the pre-1978 residential property requires the EPA-certified renovation firm's engagement, the certified renovator's presence, and the specific lead-safe work practices whose implementation prevents the lead dust generation during the renovation — is the federal regulatory requirement whose compliance every north Texas contractor who performs the renovation of the pre-1978 home must specifically satisfy.
The RRP Rule's specific requirements include the pre-renovation disclosure to the occupant, the certified renovator's supervision of the work crew, the containment of the work area whose plastic sheeting prevents the lead dust migration to the occupied spaces, the prohibition of the dry sanding and the dry scraping of the lead-based paint, the HEPA vacuum's use for the final cleaning, the cleaning verification whose dust wipe confirmation of the lead dust clearance confirms the work area's safe occupancy status, and the record keeping whose documentation of the compliance the EPA's enforcement most specifically requires.
The contractor who performs the renovation of the pre-1978 north Texas home without the RRP certification, without the work area containment, and without the lead-safe work practices is the contractor whose non-compliance creates the regulatory violation and the health risk whose consequences the homeowner most specifically avoids by the certified contractor's engagement.
The Testing Process: How Lead Paint Is Confirmed
The lead paint testing process involves three specific methodologies whose selection reflects the assessment's purpose, the required accuracy, and the budget whose constraints the assessment approach most directly reflects.
The XRF Testing
The X-ray fluorescence — the XRF instrument whose application to the painted surface measures the lead content of the paint layers without the physical sampling whose laboratory analysis the traditional testing requires — is the most comprehensive and the most efficient lead paint testing method for the pre-purchase assessment whose scope covers every painted surface in the home.
The XRF instrument's specific operation — the X-ray source whose irradiation of the paint layers produces the fluorescence whose energy spectrum the detector measures to calculate the lead concentration at the specific location — produces the immediate results whose confirmation of the positive or the negative reading allows the systematic assessment of every painted surface without the sampling delay whose laboratory turnaround the bulk sample testing requires.
The XRF testing's specific advantages for the pre-purchase assessment include the non-destructive nature whose application to the intact painted surface does not create the paint disturbance whose lead dust generation the bulk sampling's physical collection produces, the immediate results whose availability during the inspection visit allows the assessment to cover the complete painted surface inventory, and the through-coat measurement whose detection of the lead in the subsurface paint layers below the non-lead topcoat provides the most complete lead content picture whose surface sampling would miss.
The XRF testing cost in the north Texas market is typically $300 to $500 for the standard residential assessment whose coverage of the interior and exterior painted surfaces produces the most comprehensive lead paint map available for the purchase decision.
The Bulk Sampling
The bulk sampling — the collection of the physical paint chip from the suspect surface whose laboratory analysis under the atomic absorption spectroscopy or the inductively coupled plasma spectroscopy produces the lead concentration measurement — is the alternative testing method whose application to the specific surfaces whose XRF reading produces the inconclusive result or whose testing the regulatory standard requires for the specific abatement project provides the confirmation whose laboratory documentation the management decision most specifically requires.
The bulk sample collection requires the certified lead inspector's training and the PPE whose use during the collection prevents the collector's exposure to the dust whose release the sampling activity's limited disturbance may produce. The laboratory analysis cost is typically $25 to $40 per sample whose turnaround of 24 to 72 hours produces the confirmed result whose documentation the management planning most specifically requires.
The Dust Wipe Sample
The dust wipe sample — the cloth wipe whose collection of the settled dust on the windowsill, the floor, and other horizontal surfaces produces the laboratory analysis of the lead content in the dust whose exposure pathway the young child's hand-to-mouth behavior most specifically creates — is the testing method whose application to the post-renovation clearance confirmation and the ongoing monitoring of the lead dust level in the occupied home most directly serves.
The dust wipe sample's specific application in the purchase context is the assessment of the existing lead dust load — the windowsill's dust wipe whose lead concentration confirms the friction surface's ongoing dust generation and the floor's dust wipe whose lead concentration confirms the existing lead dust's presence in the child's primary play environment. The dust wipe sample cost is typically $20 to $40 per sample whose laboratory analysis produces the result whose comparison to the EPA's clearance standards most specifically informs the management decision.
The Management Options: The Complete Framework
The lead paint management options — the specific approaches whose selection reflects the material's condition, the occupancy's population, and the renovation plans whose implementation the management most specifically addresses — span from the in-place management of the intact paint through the encapsulation to the full abatement whose regulated removal is the most comprehensive and the most expensive option.
The In-Place Management
The in-place management — the maintenance of the intact lead paint's condition through the regular inspection whose identification of the deteriorating paint initiates the prompt repair whose prevention of the peeling and the chipping eliminates the primary exposure pathway — is the EPA's specifically endorsed approach for the well-maintained lead paint in the property whose occupancy does not include the young child at the most vulnerable age range.
The in-place management's specific requirements include the regular inspection whose semi-annual frequency the EPA's guidelines most specifically recommend for the pre-1978 rental property and whose annual frequency the owner-occupied home's ongoing monitoring most specifically reflects, the prompt repair of every deteriorating paint condition whose identification prevents the progression from the hairline crack to the peeling that creates the ingestion-pathway exposure, and the documentation whose maintenance in the property's records confirms the inspection history and the repair history for the future renovation planning and the subsequent buyer's disclosure.
The Encapsulation
The encapsulation — the application of the specially formulated encapsulant whose adhesive bond to the lead paint surface creates the barrier that prevents the lead paint's deterioration and the dust generation — is the management option whose application to the intact but marginally conditioned lead paint surface provides the most cost-effective intervention between the in-place management and the full abatement.
The encapsulant's specific formulation — the elastomeric coating or the rigid covering material whose application meets the EPA's performance standard for the lead paint encapsulation — is the specific product whose use ensures the regulatory compliance and the long-term management effectiveness. The encapsulation cost in the north Texas market is typically $3 to $8 per square foot for the surface preparation and the encapsulant application.
The Full Abatement
The full abatement — the complete removal of the lead-based paint by the certified lead abatement contractor using the regulated procedures whose work area containment, the worker protection, and the waste disposal prevent the fiber release during the removal activity — is the management option whose application is most specifically appropriate when the renovation activity requires the painted surface's disturbance, when the paint's deterioration has progressed to the condition whose ongoing generation of the lead dust the encapsulation can no longer prevent, or when the household with the young child whose occupancy creates the most specifically vulnerable exposure scenario most directly motivates the comprehensive management.
The full abatement's specific regulatory requirements under the EPA's lead abatement standard — the pre-abatement notification, the certified abatement contractor's engagement, the work area containment, the worker protection, the air monitoring, the waste disposal, and the post-abatement clearance examination whose confirmation of the lead dust concentration below the clearance standard allows the work area's occupancy restoration — are the procedural requirements whose compliance the permitted abatement work most specifically ensures.
The full abatement cost in the north Texas market reflects the surface area, the paint layer count, the substrate material, and the access conditions whose combination produces the total project cost.
The interior trim abatement — the removal of the lead paint from the window frames, the door frames, and the baseboards in the typical accessible corridor home — typically costs $3,000 to $8,000 for the standard scope.
The interior wall surface abatement — the removal of the lead paint from the plaster or the drywall wall surfaces in the typical accessible corridor home — typically costs $5,000 to $15,000 for the standard scope.
The exterior surface abatement — the removal of the lead paint from the wood siding and the exterior trim — typically costs $8,000 to $25,000 for the standard accessible corridor home depending on the siding area and the paint layer count.
The Friction Surface Priority: The Most Immediately Important Management Focus
The friction surface priority — the specific management focus whose application to the window frames, the window sills, and the door frames whose operational use creates the lead paint dust generation most specifically — is the most immediately important management dimension for the household with the young child whose occupancy creates the most vulnerable exposure scenario in the residential lead paint context.
The window sill's dust generation — the repeated window operation whose sliding contact between the painted sash and the painted frame grinds the lead paint to the fine dust particle whose deposition on the window sill's horizontal surface creates the most concentrated lead dust reservoir in the typical pre-1978 north Texas home — is the specific friction surface condition whose management the Hewitt Group most specifically recommends as the first and the most urgently important lead paint management action for the household with the young child.
The friction surface management options — the paint encapsulation whose barrier prevents the grinding dust generation, the painted component's replacement with the non-lead alternative whose elimination of the friction surface contact most permanently addresses the dust generation, and the friction surface's lead paint removal whose abatement eliminates the lead paint source — are the specific approaches whose selection reflects the friction surface's condition and the management budget whose constraints the most cost-effective approach most specifically respects.
The Lead Paint and the Renovation: The Most Critical Context
The renovation's specific interaction with the lead paint is the most practically important dimension of the lead paint education for the north Texas older home buyer and homeowner — because the renovation activity is the single most common residential lead exposure event whose occurrence in the unprotected renovation creates the most concentrated lead dust generation of any residential activity.
The specific renovation activities whose disturbance of the lead paint creates the most significant dust generation include the dry sanding, the dry scraping, the heat gun application, the power tool cutting, and the demolition whose physical disruption of the lead-painted surface creates the fine particle size whose inhalation and ingestion risk is the highest. The RRP Rule's prohibition of the dry sanding and the dry scraping of the lead paint reflects the specific recognition of these activities' dust generation potential whose regulatory prohibition is the most directly protective response.
The renovation planning for the pre-1978 north Texas home — the kitchen remodel, the bathroom update, the window replacement, the floor covering removal, and every other renovation whose scope involves the disturbance of the pre-1978 painted surfaces — should specifically include the pre-renovation lead paint testing whose confirmation of the presence or the absence determines whether the RRP Rule's certified firm requirement and the lead-safe work practices apply to the specific renovation scope.
The Pre-Purchase Lead Paint Assessment: The Hewitt Group's Recommendation
The pre-purchase lead paint assessment — the certified inspector's evaluation of the pre-1978 north Texas home whose XRF testing produces the confirmed identification or the confirmed absence — is the specific due diligence step whose completion during the option period the Hewitt Group most specifically recommends for every purchase of a home built before 1978 in the eleven-city service area.
The pre-purchase assessment's timing — the option period whose 7 to 14 day window provides the assessment scheduling, the testing completion, and the results' evaluation that the most informed purchase decision requires — is the specific timing whose advance scheduling in the first 24 to 48 hours of the option period the Hewitt Group most specifically recommends to ensure the assessment's completion within the option period's window.
The lead paint condition's inclusion in the purchase negotiation — the seller credit request whose amount reflects the management cost for the confirmed lead paint whose presence the testing confirms and whose condition the management planning most specifically addresses — is the specific negotiation approach whose documentation in the inspector's report and the management contractor's estimate most specifically supports.
The Lead Paint and the VA and FHA Appraisal
For buyers using VA or FHA financing whose prevalence in the accessible corridor market reflects the military community's concentration and the first-time buyer demographic's loan preference, the lead paint creates the specific financing-eligibility dimension whose assessment the appraisal process addresses.
The VA appraisal's Minimum Property Requirements specifically address the deteriorating paint condition in the pre-1978 home — the peeling, the chipping, and the chalking paint whose identification as the potential lead-based paint hazard requires the correction before the VA financing is approved. The VA appraiser who observes the deteriorating paint in the pre-1978 home will issue the condition requirement whose satisfaction — the deteriorating paint's correction whose completion the licensed contractor's confirmation documents — the VA lender requires before the loan funding.
The FHA appraisal's treatment of the deteriorating paint in the pre-1978 home is identical to the VA's approach — the deteriorating paint condition whose identification produces the condition requirement whose pre-closing correction the FHA financing requires.
The practical implication for the VA and FHA buyers of the pre-1978 accessible corridor north Texas home: the deteriorating paint condition whose correction before the closing is the VA and FHA financing requirement most specifically and most consistently produces the pre-closing repair obligation whose management the Hewitt Group's transaction coordination facilitates through the seller's agreement to complete the repair, the buyer's agreement to fund the repair from the seller credit, or the price reduction whose amount reflects the repair cost.
The Lead Paint Decision Framework
The complete lead paint decision framework for the north Texas older home buyer brings together the disclosure review, the inspection findings, the testing results, the management option selection, and the negotiation strategy into the specific health and financial analysis whose output is the most complete picture available for the purchase decision.
Step 1: confirm the construction era from the county records — the pre-1978 construction whose lead paint probability most specifically warrants the disclosure review and the testing.
Step 2: review the seller's lead paint disclosure form — the federal requirement whose disclosure of the known lead paint information and the available records provides the starting point whose completeness the pre-purchase testing most specifically supplements.
Step 3: schedule the certified lead inspector's XRF assessment during the first 24 to 48 hours of the option period — the comprehensive testing whose results produce the confirmed presence or absence at every painted surface in the home.
Step 4: evaluate the confirmed lead paint's condition — the intact well-maintained paint whose in-place management is appropriate versus the deteriorating paint whose encapsulation or abatement is required.
Step 5: for households with young children or pregnant occupants, specifically prioritize the friction surface management and the dust wipe assessment whose findings most directly determine the immediate exposure risk.
Step 6: obtain the management contractor's cost estimate for the confirmed lead paint whose renovation plans require the disturbance or whose condition requires the active management — the specific cost whose documentation supports the negotiation request.
Step 7: incorporate the management costs into the purchase negotiation — the seller credit request, the pre-closing repair requirement for the deteriorating paint, or the buyer's acceptance with the price adjustment whose amount the management cost supports.
Step 8: establish the in-place management documentation — the inspector's report whose maintenance in the property's records confirms the lead paint locations and the management history for the future renovation planning and the subsequent buyer's disclosure.
Working with Mark Hewitt and the Hewitt Group on the Lead Paint Assessment
The Hewitt Group provides every buyer of an established north Texas home with the lead paint education, the certified lead inspector referrals whose EPA and TDSHS certification confirms the professional qualification, the federal disclosure compliance guidance, the RRP Rule renovation requirement awareness, the friction surface priority assessment, the VA and FHA MPR compliance framework, the negotiation strategy for the lead paint condition items, and the complete transaction management that together constitute the most complete lead paint buyer service available in the eleven-city market. Contact us today for your lead paint assessment consultation.