All Forum Posts by: Daniel Adler

Yeah I just gave up and reached out to a relator friend. These forums have become decreasingly valuable when the only responses are relators telling me it's only for their use. Thanks, but we don't care - it's stupid protectionist policies like that which resulted in the NAR lawsuit agreeing to mandatory commissions being cut last month. I am quite happy with the ruling and look forward to the thinning of the herd.

Thank you for your input Nathan. I've gotten the RLTO lease here from someone on bigger pockets for the past 6 years now.

Does anyone have the 2024 RLTO lease they could share?

Thanks in advance,

Daniel

I'm also looking for a copy; any chance @John Warren or @Jonathan Klemm one of you could be so kind as to emailing/DMing me a copy?

In the same boat here, anyone able to send me the editable PDF for 2023?

I have a coach house that I will begin a rehab of in April, and have been soliciting estimates from GCs to complete all of the work. The existing water and sewer are tied to the main house, which already has low water pressure, so I believe running a new water line is the best course of action. However, the three quotes I've gotten have all been north of for this work, which seems high to me. Granted the water main is on the other side of the street, so it's a longer trench they need to dig, but it still seems like a lot of money for what is basically put two pipes in the ground. For anyone that has experience with this, does the cost seem about correct?

OP here with an update.

So after reviewing all of the above responses, I emailed my contractor (back in March) countering many of his points, but finally stating that I've been civil with him, and that if he really wanted to threaten legal action, he was free to do so. I had been civil with him thus far, haven't bashed him on social media or anything, and without a signed agreement I wasn't worried about an legal outcomes.

Flash forward to today, and he looks like he's finally engaged with an attorney to try to collect - I've received an email from an attorney's office stating I need to pay within 7 days or they will file a lawsuit. Again, there is no written agreement and I never accepted or agreed to any of the additional work.

Is it time to lawyer up? If I do, an incur costs, can I counter-sue him for the legal costs?

Hi all,

Looking for an architect to draw up plans for a gut renovation of a coach house. If anyone has recommendations, that would be greatly appreciated. Please note I am looking for flat-fee architects, not % of build amount. So far, I've gotten wide ranges of estimates ($3500-42000) to complete the work, so needing more estimates before I can make any decisions.

Thanks in advance,

Daniel

Thanks for your response - was hoping to get a contractor's perspective on this as well. I am, by no means a construction expert, but I still do think my comments were accurate - just maybe not well explained. I'll use this photo as a reference for what I'm talking about. The window in question had a sill, head jamb, and the side jambs already in place (no trim/casing). The window on the other side of the fridge had jambs all around, with no casing. They replaced the sill with a jamb so that casing could go all around it. The casing is barely half an inch off the countertops, so it would look bad it it wasn't level with it. But, when they installed the jamb, it was at angle (likely, as you pointed out, because the window itself was not perfectly level). I watched him make the repair - jamb was removed, shims went in to level it, and then the jamb went back in, now level countertop and casing that he put in afterwards.

As for the toe kick, we needed a larger one because my floors slope towards the center of the home (100 year old house that had structural repairs completed two years ago). Because the cabinets need to all be level for the countertops, in one area, they had to jack up the cabinets almost 1.5 inches so everything was level. The larger trim was used so that you wouldn't see the top of it and into the lower cabinets. I agree this isn't a big deal, but he's trying to charge me nearly $200 for a 2 foot piece.

The amount isn't that large - under 3k in remaining that we're arguing about. But I hired him directly, so there isn't a company/LLC to shield me. I've paid him, in full, for our original agree-upon amount; I've also agreed to pay him for some of the additional items that he added (i.e. I asked them to move a different electrical outlet that we never discussed).

What irritates me is his dishonesty; for example, charging me $1k in materials, but I priced out all of the materials myself and it barely exceeds $300.

I'm fine going to court and representing myself - I'm trying to figure out that if it came to that point, if I'd have a winning case or not. Thanks for the responses thus far.