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[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< for every responsible and experienced
rental property owner you can name, I can probably name one ON MY BLOCK >>
Jon sez: I hardily concur. I divide my time between maintaining 64 rental
units and a freelance remodeling operation that includes a mix of homeowners
and rental property owners. In one week I can go from restoring a Purcell room
to being asked to perform the most stopgap, and illegal, procedures in a
building already being held together with grease and duct tape. I refuse to
perform nonconforming work and occasionally lose a job, but there are plenty of good
owners to keep me busy.
This is all anecdotal, I couldn't say what the percentages are. There's a
sweeping mix of owners out there. My business is almost entirely done in
so-called good neighborhoods (Loring, Wedge, Bryn Mawr, etc.). I imagine the
percentages change by neighborhood.
That being said, it's my experience that it's almost invariably the
tenant that disables the smoke alarm. They burn the pizza, freak out at the noise
and yank the thing down. I bet I reconnect the alarm in 10% of our turnovers.
Jon Gorder
Loriing Park
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