Landlord Blue’s
I am a first time home buyer. Signing all the paperwork to take over this property was stressful enough. I am starting to realize since I decided on a Multi-Family I did not buy one house… I BOUGHT 4…
The First thing I want to explain to you all is I bought this house from a man that ownes a House Building Company. Though I am not a complete idiot I am realizing how ignorant I am. I have been living here for about a month now. This place is great and I love it but there are a lot of issues that I need to fix. The other day I had an electrician come though so I could get a new hot water heated hooked up to the electricity of the apartment it belongs to. I am not going to pay for the electricity for thier hot water. This Electrician did his walk though while my mother was here because I was at my Uncle Joe’s Funeral.
He told me that he would do it but he needs to explain what he is going to do before he starts working. So he came over this morning and I walked though with him. Now there are certain things that I look for in people I am trusting to do work for me. As an ex-Aircraft Mechanic I am used to having a job that puts other people in danger if I mess up. This contractor is going to be putting my daughter’s saftey in his hands. Beyond that there are 3 other Families that I feel I am responsible for. This Contractor made me believe that he understood that the saftey of these families and of course my daughter is my main concern.
We started in the Basement where the Hot Water Heater is this was scare number one… The current hot water heater is Propane, this is suppose to have a ventalation system that runs out of the house. There was nothing hooked up. Therefore the exhaust of this hot water heater is just blowing into the basement. Not that that isn’t bad enough but if you look directly above it there is a vent that goes into the apartment above the hot water heater, STRAIGHT INTO THE PEOPLE 18 month old babies room… I am just glad the people haven’t moved in yet.
So we leave the basement and he takes me to the stairwell he wants to run the wires to the second floor. I will be honest I didn’t look at this stairwell to much when I was looking at the building, no one ever uses it and I didn’t care how ungly it was, its all cosmetic work, right? Nope… He continued to show me wires that were tacked up the wall instead of placed into the wall. He also showed me that there were a lot of wires just hanging there without being capped, yes they are live…
As he showed me all of this he told me he wanted to run the new wires and get these old wire behind the wall. I love that idea. But he said, “But I want to tear the wall down.” of course I replied, “Why?”
He reached up with his finger and pressed on a spot in the wall paper, it ripped. All it was was wall paper, so he ripped a lot of wall paper off the walls. This wall was about to fall down anyway.
I think at this point he could see the stress level flying and was afraid I was going to pop a couple arteries. He stopped the Tour right there. He did tell me he wants to do all this work and go into the attic and terminate a couple of wires up there and secure a couple of lose wires above the ceiling tiles.
For some reason no one understands why I am so stressed…
