Im scratching my head here on what to do
Long story short without boring you
- Bought severely damaged unit
- Strata had unit taken off insurance due to condition, as they do
- Obviously will only reinstate when it's fixed and cert of occupancy
- I hire a few different people to work on the site for different jobs
- One guy quoted 4k for a job and one week,
- Ended up going 6 weeks and 8k which I was quite annoyed also because I was overseas for a month
- I had promised him more work which I didn't give to him obviously
- I simply told him I had no more money left and let me work out what I'm going to do, and left it at that, no agro or I'll feelings
- He still has the keys
- When he came and took all his equipment home, he took home a few extras which belonged to the other workers, including a toilet! But pretty minimal, there was heaps more stuff there but that was untouched
- When I got to the house, he had got a tube of sun cream and sprayed it on one wall, and got a wet roller and rolled it on another wall, obviously all I have to do is paint the two walls again so not too bad
- While he was working on site, he hired his acquaintance for.cheap manual labour, whom I met twice when we worked together
- Aquaitnace calls me and says the guy h as a habit of stealing stuff from work sites and he said that he told.him that he was intending to break in to my house and damage it (second guy to tell me the same story this week about his intentions to break into my house)
- I call cops and they say nothing I can do except to secure it
- My suggestion of them calling him and warning him not to be an idiot is not recommended (I did this year's ago and the cops called the guy and told him to behave and it worked well)
So what to do?
I've removed everything of value, changed the locks
I'm more concerned about damage as I can't insure it, unless I insure it as a house which it technically isn't a house as it's on a subdivided block, however isn't on a strata, don't really want to get it insured and get the claim. refused after getting piece of mind
I'm also considering a security camera, not sure if you can buy a cheap camera that relays all the footage back somewhere, but it needs to be removable
Anyone got any suggestions? As I'm still scratching my head here
Long story short without boring you
- Bought severely damaged unit
- Strata had unit taken off insurance due to condition, as they do
- Obviously will only reinstate when it's fixed and cert of occupancy
- I hire a few different people to work on the site for different jobs
- One guy quoted 4k for a job and one week,
- Ended up going 6 weeks and 8k which I was quite annoyed also because I was overseas for a month
- I had promised him more work which I didn't give to him obviously
- I simply told him I had no more money left and let me work out what I'm going to do, and left it at that, no agro or I'll feelings
- He still has the keys
- When he came and took all his equipment home, he took home a few extras which belonged to the other workers, including a toilet! But pretty minimal, there was heaps more stuff there but that was untouched
- When I got to the house, he had got a tube of sun cream and sprayed it on one wall, and got a wet roller and rolled it on another wall, obviously all I have to do is paint the two walls again so not too bad
- While he was working on site, he hired his acquaintance for.cheap manual labour, whom I met twice when we worked together
- Aquaitnace calls me and says the guy h as a habit of stealing stuff from work sites and he said that he told.him that he was intending to break in to my house and damage it (second guy to tell me the same story this week about his intentions to break into my house)
- I call cops and they say nothing I can do except to secure it
- My suggestion of them calling him and warning him not to be an idiot is not recommended (I did this year's ago and the cops called the guy and told him to behave and it worked well)
So what to do?
I've removed everything of value, changed the locks
I'm more concerned about damage as I can't insure it, unless I insure it as a house which it technically isn't a house as it's on a subdivided block, however isn't on a strata, don't really want to get it insured and get the claim. refused after getting piece of mind
I'm also considering a security camera, not sure if you can buy a cheap camera that relays all the footage back somewhere, but it needs to be removable
Anyone got any suggestions? As I'm still scratching my head here
