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10 January 2022 | 10 replies
@Patti Robertson It is a calculated risk for sure, and agreed that there are unethical people in the business, and sometimes ethical people can do unethical things when faced with a lot of challenges in the business.
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7 January 2022 | 7 replies
To me it looks like the Three Stooges did it.One trade opens a hole in the wall/foundation to make some repairs, they don't do hole repairs and leave it.Homeowner decides to just leave it, or stack loose rubble bricks back in the hole--thus saving cost of a proper repair job.This is an extreme brick problem: https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/defenders/2020/06/29/detroit-familys-home-collapses-as-landlord-refuses-to-answer-calls/
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10 January 2022 | 5 replies
And I can't remember the last one I saw challenged.
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7 January 2022 | 1 reply
Challenges?
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7 January 2022 | 4 replies
If the lease is poorly written, it may be more of a challenge.
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7 January 2022 | 0 replies
Our question is, the street is tight, so it would make building a bit more challenging, but our thought is that we could build 4 units and keep the garage under.