This post contains affiliate links. If you buy through them I may earn a small commission at no cost to you. Full disclosure. The apartments I used to manage had a move-out checklist, and one line on it was “window treatments — damage to surrounding wall.” For years I thought that line was mostly decorative….

This post contains affiliate links — full disclosure at the end. I want to tell you about a wall I inspected in Columbus. The tenant had done everything right, or so she thought. No nails, no anchors, no drilling. She’d used adhesive shelves — the kind that promise twenty pounds and no damage. Six of…