Looked at a job of modifying a tenant unit for the needs of the new tenant.
It's an old strip-mall style of building that's seen many years worth of evolutions from previous tenants.
The new tenants are willing to pay for modifications to fit their needs, but don't want to be responsible for a complete rewire of the structure, which I can understand. They feel like the owners should be responsible for some costs.
I went into the crawl space to look at what's there to get familiar with things and saw way too many code violations to go into detail. This is a taste of how I found things, I didn't take covers off (there weren't any covers evident anywhere),
I'm pretty sure there's going to be some time involved in just making the work environment safe for workers (plumbers, etc).
Then there's going to be time involved in working back some circuits that aren't needed/wanted and identifying what's available that can be modified or used for new tenant.
I've already told the tenant this is going to be a T&M job. I need to have a conversation with them about seeing how they want to deal with the owner and that persons responsibility for a portion of the work.
I'd be interested in hearing people's experience with this type of scenario, as well as advise/suggestions.
Thanks!
It's an old strip-mall style of building that's seen many years worth of evolutions from previous tenants.
The new tenants are willing to pay for modifications to fit their needs, but don't want to be responsible for a complete rewire of the structure, which I can understand. They feel like the owners should be responsible for some costs.
I went into the crawl space to look at what's there to get familiar with things and saw way too many code violations to go into detail. This is a taste of how I found things, I didn't take covers off (there weren't any covers evident anywhere),
I'm pretty sure there's going to be some time involved in just making the work environment safe for workers (plumbers, etc).
Then there's going to be time involved in working back some circuits that aren't needed/wanted and identifying what's available that can be modified or used for new tenant.
I've already told the tenant this is going to be a T&M job. I need to have a conversation with them about seeing how they want to deal with the owner and that persons responsibility for a portion of the work.
I'd be interested in hearing people's experience with this type of scenario, as well as advise/suggestions.
Thanks!