Status Report, 30 Jan 2023

Big Picture: Where are we?
Duncan St. is completed and handed over to tenant.

Spent this week finishing out Duncan St. Got the final inspection done, so the permit is closed out. Lots of cleaning, touch up paint, etc. Did the handover on Friday, and the tenant is looking forward to moving in this week.

Goals from week of 23 Jan

• painting and cleaning. Move out the tools. (done)

Corp Update

• Although I’ve been focused on Duncan, I’ve also been evaluating properties in the background. Will continue that in the coming weeks
• Sunday the 29th is the open house at Mintwood.

Accomplishments

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Mintwood St

• Roof leak seems to have been sealed up. No additional indiciations of water inside the building. I’ll let it be for a few weeks, then I’ll repair the drywall on the ceiling in the office.
  {Jan 23} We have a small leak in the roof over the office. Last weekend I spotted a nail pop in the ceiling with a tell-tail ring of rust. This weekend, there’s joint tape bubbling up. I went onto the roof and caulked everything that looks like it might be even close to suspect. Fortunately I’m pretty good at drywall repair- though it won’t be fixed before next weekend. (And for obvious reasons, they team that did that roof wasn’t invited to the party- this just served as proof that it was the right decision.)
• Landscaping: No big change- other than the fact that I hauled the trash from the back yard to the dump. Worth noting that dump fees have gone up 30% in the past 6 months. I haven’t done anything with the landscape plans bc we learned that the neighbor in the back (with the failing retaining wall) is selling her place. We’ll wait for the new owner to take possession and then we’ll approach them about sharing costs on the wall.

Pearl St.

• No particular news.

Orange Ave

• Leaving 1/30 to go to CA to deal with the sewer line. Confirmed scope and schedule with contractor, and with tenants.
• (1/16) The plumbing I thought I was going to use jacked up his price when i actually shrank the scope, so he’s out. I have chosen someone else, and have scheduled the work for the end of Jan/ early Feb. I’m going to fly out there to be on site during the project. It’s too big a job to ignore.
  Meanwhile, they were able to snake the line again from the street-side clean out. The tech on site said not to flush paper, but I’ve told the tenants that they can do so. My thought process is that this pipe was this bad for > 1 year, and it only recently backed up. We have now removed all of the roots (via the second snake) so it is better than it was in November 2022 (when it appeared to be working fine), so there’s no reason to continue to inconvenience the tenants.
  
  (12/25) Tenant had a sewage problem in early December, which we had snaked. Unfortunately, they did a lousy job and it all backed up in an ugly way on Christmas day. Had a sewer cleaner out, and they got flow re-established, but there are some root intrusions under the deck that we need to address. This may be a significant cost item.

Duncan St.

All painting and cleaning completed at Duncan St. The trello board is clean, except for a few items which are mostly “spring/ warmer weather”.

Closed out the final inspections and building permit at Duncan St. We did an “overtime” inspection so we could get it done before the tenants moved in. All good.

Tools have been moved out of Duncan St, with some going into the corporate storage unit, and some in the basement at Mintwood.

Goals for week of 30 January

• Repair sewer line at Orange Ave.