It's in an area where boarding houses are allowed usages and as I'll be getting first boarders in within a month of taking over there won't be any issues anyway. Even if after a week or so we only have four or five rooms ready to go that's enough to cover costs. A deep clean and rubbish removal and yard cleanup and we'd be okay to start up again with hand picked tenants on cheap rates who don't mind us working around them on areas.
Fire safety is an issue - we have to pretty quickly put on fire doors and do a wired fire alarm system that's monitored. Probably a cost of around 50K looking at quotes so far but hoping council will give us a few months to get it sorted. There is also a grant available for that but I think will pay back over five years but we might see if we can qualify for it.
Somebody called the health inspector last week. Owner and manager blame me as a tactic to reduce price but it wasn't. I suspect tenants dobbing in their own mess in hopes a sale can't happen. Revenge on the owner for sale. All very ugly but the up side was both the owner and manager yelling at council inspector on phone and in person. So when I rang all professional to figure out what the issue was and made it clear it would all be different they were the most pleasant conversations ending with "Council is here to help and can't wait to see the place enter modern times and look forward to working with you blah blah". I'll next be talking to police to they are aware of what is happening over next month leading up to settlement.
Fire safety is an issue - we have to pretty quickly put on fire doors and do a wired fire alarm system that's monitored. Probably a cost of around 50K looking at quotes so far but hoping council will give us a few months to get it sorted. There is also a grant available for that but I think will pay back over five years but we might see if we can qualify for it.
Somebody called the health inspector last week. Owner and manager blame me as a tactic to reduce price but it wasn't. I suspect tenants dobbing in their own mess in hopes a sale can't happen. Revenge on the owner for sale. All very ugly but the up side was both the owner and manager yelling at council inspector on phone and in person. So when I rang all professional to figure out what the issue was and made it clear it would all be different they were the most pleasant conversations ending with "Council is here to help and can't wait to see the place enter modern times and look forward to working with you blah blah". I'll next be talking to police to they are aware of what is happening over next month leading up to settlement.