Our cat is pissing everywhere and we've tried a ton of stuff, help?

I'll try to make this as short as possible. Wife and I met about 4 years ago. At her apartment, she had 2 cats, Oliver and Curtis. Curtis is the problem child. He pisses everywhere. At her apartment, she had 2 litter boxes. He will shit in the boxes, however when it comes to urinating, he prefers carpet, any kind of carpet. It got so bad at her apartment she had to get the plastic mats (like the kind under computer chairs) and line all around the litter boxes. He would pee on it and we would just have to clean it up. He ended up ruining that carpet.

Fast forward, we bought a house, and moved in together, I brought along my cat Dante. We now have 3 males in the house. 3 litter boxes in the laundry room. The basement was finished and had carpet. We thought that moving had cured him. Then we noticed a weird smell one day after some water had gotten in the basement from a heavy rain. Turned out he had been pissing all over the place in the basement. We pulled the carpet up and you could see all the little spots. We took the carpet out. Then he started pissing ON the treadmill, it got all down in the motor, it was a nightmare to clean. Now he's moved onto area rugs and bath mats, clothes baskets, fresh and dirty laundry. It's getting out of control.

We have taken him to the vet, we thought maybe he had a UTI, nope he's good and healthy. Tried moving boxes to different locations in the house. Tried getting an additional box that's huge and introducing him to it. Tried putting his face in it when we caught him doing it. Changing the boxes every other day (this got expensive and didnt solve anything after a month so we stopped) tried scrubbing everyplace that he had peed at prior. Nothing is working.

It's like he has some fetish that he can't go where he's supposed to be going. I don't know what else to try but it's getting really annoying cleaning up cat piss all the time. Any suggestions?

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