All Forum Posts by: Brett Jones

I listened to it earlier, but am unable to listen at the moment. What was the name of the services she referenced to track pricing/bookings?

I'm also in Maine (Lamoine). Often even those roads that have an association, and are built to town standards wont be absorbed by the municipality. Small towns don't want the expense. I built a subdivision around 2007 and we still own land within the development. The association members (all land owners who access their land via subdivision roads) contribute a set amount yearly (I think it was $125 last year) that covers the winter plowing and spring maintenance (I've been doing that work). There are other developments in town that never had a complete or cohesive road associations. For those folks it's often left to a few people to deal with annual maintenance work, and nagging people to every year contribute for the plow bill and annual grading. 

Will an inspector be coming by for any reason in the future?

Same issue with electrical work. A home owner in Maine can pull a permit from state to wire up his own house, then have a state inspector look the work over, the inspector signs off on work and the power company will connect service (new construction). I was planning on going this route with a duplex I built a while back, then I learned that due to the commercial nature of the structure I needed an electrician to do everything.  It added $5k or so to the project.

Personally, for the kind of work you're doing and if this is a single family home, I would do it myself. 

Hi there. I recently finished off a rehab that I quickly found a tenant for (at upper market rates). I was showing the home while some of the final work was being completed and in an effort to make things look as nice as possible during showings, I hung window treatments and placed some nice furniture that was already on site. I don't think a full staging makes sense for a rental showing, but I'm sure my efforts help sell the tenant on the place. 

I'm curious what others are doing to put their units in the best light during showings?

Eat the loss. Chalk it up to "education. Get those tenants out as quickly *** possible, before they cost you more money.

How many square feet of material do you need? Is the whole area (room, main floor, etc) being sanded and refinished? Are you just looking for some material to repair and area?

 Personally I'd try and work the price down, even if it's just to cover the costs of the modifications. If you personally oversee the modifications, you're able to decide on material quality (meaning material price) and most importantly, the quality of the work being done.

what is needed to make the non compliant unit legal? are we just talking about installing properly sized egress windows, or adding an external fire escape staircase?

@Justin Tahilramani I envy you folks in warmer climates (I'm in Downeast Maine). Everything I do here has to be planned out with the looming certainty that "Winter is coming". Anything with water (even the drains on condensing LP units) has to be within the heated space of a building. 

Good luck with the project, and well done finding a niche that works so well.