About Mrskimsgrill

We Paint Empty Units, Against a Clock

Mrskimsgrill is a painting crew in Long Beach that works almost entirely on rentals. We are based off Pacific Coast Hwy in the 90808 ZIP, and on any given week we are in an apartment that emptied on Friday and needs to show by the following weekend.

That is a narrower business than most painters run, and it was a deliberate choice. Turnover work has its own rhythm. The unit is empty, so there is no furniture to move and no family to work around, which sounds easy until you understand that the day itself is the constraint. Every day a unit sits vacant is rent that nobody collects, and the paint sits right in the middle of a queue of other trades who all need the same room.

What Being Built for Turnovers Means

It means we hold dates against move-out dates rather than against our own convenience. It means we carry the common building colors on the truck instead of ordering them the morning we start. It means we work a unit room by room, finishing each one completely, rather than putting a first coat everywhere and coming back, because a finished room can be released to the cleaner or the flooring crew while we are still in the next one.

It also means we have opinions about products. Walls in a rental get touched, wiped and knocked in a way that walls in an owner-occupied house do not. A washable acrylic in a satin or eggshell sheen survives that. A cheap flat does not, and the saving on the can is spent twice over at the next turn.

Telling You When Not to Repaint

The most useful thing we do for owners is scope a unit honestly. Plenty of units that get quoted for a full repaint need a wash, a dozen nail holes filled and two walls done. We will say that. It costs us the bigger job and it is why owners here keep calling back, because a painter who talks you out of a job once is a painter you believe the second time, when the answer is that the whole place really does need sealing.

The Housing Around Here

Long Beach rentals are not one thing. There are 1920s and 1930s bungalows and duplexes in Belmont Heights and Rose Park with lath and plaster walls and pre-1978 paint layers that have to be handled properly. There are post-war stucco tracts further east where the interiors are straightforward drywall. There are mid-century flat-roof buildings and a lot of alley-access back units. Each one turns differently, and the walkthrough is where we work out which one you have.

Call (562) 923-1905 with a unit and a date.