Separating The Electricity
I have two family house that is being rehabbed right now and because of city law I have to separate the electricity and have separate meters for each apartment. Does anybody have any experience in separating the electricity? How much would this cost to be done?
I got a bid for mine to be done for $500. I already had separate breaker boxes. It will depend on how much contractors try to make in your area and how much work it will take. Your best bet is to get free estimates from a couple of electricians.
It will deffinately depend on your area. In Michigan we base the rate on the type of job. You said you were rehabbing it, if you are removing drywall or putting new over plaster, it will deffinatly be a better rate than if they had to have two men/woman on the site to fish walls. Single story? I just re did all the electrical in one of my own properties last week that took me two days to complete by myself. I would have charged a customer around $1700. Mine is a two story that we put quite a bit of new drywall in so it was pretty easy.
Another thing to keep in mind is that when you are seperating units, it may be easier and cheaper to have the contractor run new wireing to all the switches and receps. Trying to track them down and seperate them can get very expensive do to the amount of labor involved.
With the HD coupons, how do you fill out the "issue date," "issued to," and "authorized by" lines?
housebuyer,
Thanks for the tip. I had no idea that these coupons where out there. I appreciate the heads up. We should start a new topic thread. Entitle it "good rehabbing tips." This coupon idea alone would make the thread worthwhile.
I am a member of Direct Buy and I would say that it is not for rehabbers but people who are actually building high end homes.
Thanks for the tip. I am headed to ebay right now
There are lenders that will do rehab loans for investors and cover 100% of the costs, including the purchase and rehab. But typically, these don’t work well if you want a quick flip. They want to see you keep it for at least a year – which would be fine if you’re going to hold it, or sell on a L/O or CFD. Also, you have to work with a licensed General Contractor.[ Edited by mcole on Date 11/29/2005 ]
Also you can get a small scoring tool that helps. You run it over the wallpaper and it makes small cuts which helps the Diff or water/dish soap mixture get behind the top vinyl layer and back to the paper layer that needs to get wet.
I have a steamer, wouldnt use anything else. Score it then steam it.
go to walmart- get this little red round looking thing close to the dif. rub the walls this the lil round thing. it leaves little holes in the wallpaper...spary the diff--blue stuff...follow directions.
i have also use vinegar and water...........worked great.!!!!..then washed walls down.....prior to painting....]
hopefully i want have problems with my paint.......
One of the problems with painting over wallpaper is that sometimes the moisture in the paint will cause the wallpaper to wrinkle and loosen.
Jim[ Edited by jimandlacy on Date 11/23/2005 ]
The steamer does work great. We use one that is made for the garment industry instead of the hand held ones for removing wall paper. The garment one sits on the floor, had a long tube that connects to the hand held wand so you can reach to the ceiling weighs almost nothing and it puts out MUCH more steam than one of the hand held wall paper models so it really soaks the wall with steam to loosen the paper. It cost about 100.00 but well worth it if you have to do many of these.