From there you can formulate what the best approach would be.You then need to undertake PI work to track the owner down, which involves looking through public records and speaking to neighbors.

Final Lien Waivers from the contractor, subcontractors and material suppliers as listed on the Sworn Contractor’s Statement - Paid receipts for materials purchased - Personal Undertaking signed by the Owner - Personal Undertaking signed by the General Contractor unless the Owner and General are the same en/ty.

This is a risky undertaking because it requires a lot ofengineering work at great expense to make the application to the ACOE with noguarantees of success. 

because the person is not that skilled, is not highly treasured, they have to open the vault, greet customers who eat time, and they decide to triage your transaction and file it under: takes too much time to solve, this one is dead.   

The utilities (water, electric, gas) are all single metered and would be a significant undertaking to separate them out.

Owning a 45-unit property with a management company at the helm is not my ideal situation since a building that size require an enormous amount of time to manage, to get to know the tenants, to get the tenants to understand how how the late rents will be handled and that is a huge undertaking to let the tenants know they have to pay the rent and how the late rents and eviction process will be handled and there are so many things that need to be organized and taken care of there is no management company on this planet that will spend the time necessary because the can't.

Not sure how much experience you have doing a greenfield project but 2 guys building an entire house is really big undertaking, even if you sub out the trades.Best of luck.

It took longer than I wanted it to and was a huge undertaking, but I felt I rose to the challenge.

It took longer than I wanted it to and was a huge undertaking, but I felt I rose to the challenge.

If he's as good as you say he will be very upfront about both and won't agree to do something he doesn't have the desire or bandwidth to undertake.