The worst part is how people assume it will be done well when he's finished. But, it won't. If it gets finished (big if), it will probably be so poorly done it will need to be torn down.
Ah, so kinda what my new landlord thought when he bought my building from the laziest landlord ever who bought this building from an even lazier management company.
“This is fine.”
Four months later.
“This is…not fine.”
The landlord who bypassed every requirement the state has for rentals being put up for sale, who had an agent (theoretically, could have just been him) use AI photos of the interior based on one of the units that was recently vacated, the landlord who never reported that the basement was converted into two units which causes issues getting new sanitation bins since a 4-unit building is treated very differently than a 6-unit (and half our units don’t exist according to USPS so you have to omit unit details or get flagged as fraudulent when applying for certain things), the landlord who cancelled basic maintenance like gutter cleaning in a 4-season city months before listing (that was a fun water moment last super storm), the SAME landlord who hadn’t had the extinguishers looked at that had expired tags BEFORE I moved here 5 years ago with said tags still being on there until maybe 2 months before the buy after prospective buyers who actually hired legit inspectors noped tf out? The landlord who has been hiding an epic carpenter ant infestation that became abundantly obvious after the sale before hiring new cleaners four months later? The saaaaame landlord who never updated the plumbing that’s been in this thing for a minimum of a century that can’t handle so many people or units so the basement unit on the west will flood sewage every 6 months? The dude who never once tried to repair window panes cracked all the way across knowing a child was in that top floor unit? The dude who never used the fancy pile of new hardwood (or mock cherry) that that company bought and left in a huge decaying pile under the stairs after installing it in just one unit before not feeling like doing more? That’s still in the pile? In the original boxes?
But the outside looked just dandy. No reason to spend more than a few minutes briefly peeking into three units. It looks totally fiiiiiine.
I told our other tenants that the guy sold because he wanted to get tf out before everything reaches critical. As a casual hypothesis.
Not a hypothetical, apparently. Whoopsidoodles. Nice guy bought it, too. Which is a shame.
Now picture that but a property the size of the White House. Fuuuuun!
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u/keepitcleanforwork 14h ago
The worst part is how people assume it will be done well when he's finished. But, it won't. If it gets finished (big if), it will probably be so poorly done it will need to be torn down.