You will need to include: temporary insurance costs, title costs, cost to store materials, how you will skirt around supply chain, portable office/fencing/potties, change order costs, number of months your construction loan runs and do you have a separate permanent take out or roll over -those costs.

Tell them this place is clearly not a good fit and they are welcome to break the lease and move out at the end of the month with no penalty.Look at the facts and leave the emotion out of it.

If $1500 is the difference I'd say think about if this is an emotional/fear-based hesitation to not take action.

Hello all,  

I know this is a long shot, But I’m looking to see if any property owners on the North Shore, Oahu would be open to a “work for lodging” agreement.  I’m a passionate surfer stuck in No-Wavesville (aka ...

The buyer's agent will help cross-check and evaluate the property/market without being emotionally tied.

Is this temporary (a type of COVID-relief measure)?

Sounds like you are letting emotions get the best of you. 

(Which is to say that I have an emotional investment in trying to make this work, and am trying to be very clear headed about that fact.)The houses could easily be used for vacation rentals, weddings, corporate retreats, yoga retreats, meditation retreats, etc.

I commissioned over a dozen in LA, and now I'm trying to bring it to Uptown Charlotte, with respect to all the local culture and using local artists.I'm getting a surprisingly welcome response so far, have commissioned one temporary mural on the windows of the old Carolina Theater, and have a couple more in the works.It's a fun departure from renovation design (though that's still my first love), and might help change the stodgy, buttoned-down, uber-unhip-yuppie-banker-esque rep of Uptown. 

You need to take a more professional approach to operating your business, leave your emotions back home in your personal life.