How Bad did the Tenants Leave this Apartment Above my Liquor Store? 

Here is the last liquor store update: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VQZcBDgH1I4.html

0:40 bro is going up stairs like an angry kid

Could you imagine trying to get furniture down a 3ft hallway?

You need to remember that furniture will need to fit down the hallways. Hire an architect to draw the layouts for you to get the best use of the spaces. It won't cost too much and will help you out immensely.

ADA requires a minimum of 36 inches, so you may be able to split the hallway depending on your code requirements. I'm not sure how the new plumbing will work with new kitchen/bathroom with the businesses under it. I would suggest to see if the corner bedroom could be with the one window bedroom to allow more windows in that apartment.

Your dedication to your craft is truly inspiring.

Thanks for not doing a closeup on the toilet 😂 There’s some home cleaners that post on my towns Facebook group and love to show before/after of the nastiest toilets 🚽🤮

I'd say you're on the right track. The green apartment hall closet could maybe moved into the inner hall between bed and kitchen.

The window in all the bedrooms were in good shape no cracks when you were done updating it. Think it might be hard to split into two units the cost is the main factor.

13:30, Definitely a bit difficult to explain an idea in a comment, but I will try. Is it possible to relocate the entrance to the apartment in green?? Basically, by taking away some of their hallway for an entrance to the new apartment. By doing this, it should give you enough room for the new unit and keep the furnace where it is. Regardless, you will need to add plumbing, but this should help keep some of the other costs lower.

I'm glad the tenants are out before they did more damage. I like floor plans but that's a tough one.

That's just greedy, man.

The pork shoulder or Boston butt was from the shoulder. It is also called a Boston butt because of the special barrel in was stored/shipped in called a "butt". It is the best cut of pork to make really delicious pulled pork sandwiches.

16:18 vibes from John Madden from the old days NFL just missing the O s and X s , just sayin . .

Remove the wall that between the hallway and the living room and make awider opening fir the room with no window and made it into a office

This is Julie… I looked at that floorplan six ways from Sunday before you bought it… it made my head hurt and it still does… add to complexities is the furnance and the mess of the likely plaster and lath walls! I think you leave it alone…

If you split the hall - for walls with no doors, you can frame them with metal studs turned 90 deg. rather than using 2x4s, to gain a couple of more inches of space. If you don't make any changes now, if you swap the toilets and put the smaller one by the shower - there would be addition room to enter the shower.

You could move the entrances for the two new apartments further in. It would shrink the floor space but would make it easier to split the apartment and not have three foot hallways.

Nice apartment, to bad they were nasty! I would rent that unit!

I’d eliminate the hallway in the occupied apartment by moving their entry door to the opposite end and extending the “landing” to allow space for the unoccupied efficiency apartment’s new entry door. I’d also demo both of the existing bathrooms to reconfigure the spaces - do it at the same time as the efficiency kitchen. It doesn’t have to be a full kitchen: apartment-sized fridge, sink, microwave, a two burner countertop hot plate, dishwasher, and cabinets like in the Home2 Suites.

You could build a staircase on the outside wall and from there an entrance through the wall into the smaller apartment.

Hey 👋🏽 I cant decipher floor plans to save my life or yours. That apt isn't too bad. With a lil work, I'd live there. 😊 Question tho...is that pipe on the steps a safety hazard? 🤔

What a great apartment,I love it.

No that would make it to small. And those doors I hate! You can hear everything and they’re just ugly. 😕

Looks like studio appt is the way to go with that only one window.

I feel like you're wasting time and resources if you proceed with this idea. Do you not have multiple basements that are easily convertible to cash flowing units in comparison to this? The basement at the former oil office for one. The basement at that property where you got burned by a fellow realtor is another. Either of those would likely be more enticing because this unit is essentially ready to rent and you'd be killing that flow for months to split it in two. At the other properties, you are strictly adding cash flow that didn't previously exist. I'd prioritize that before messing with a cash flowing unit.

You can remove structural walls as long as you find another way to carry the load properly such as steel beams depending on the span of the opening other things might need to be done you mentioned that the one apartment doesn’t have windows in the bedroom? Not sure where you are but where I live it can’t be considered a legal bedroom without windows for fire escape unless there’s a door that leads to the outside of the building from that room.

Does your "green" apartment in the floor plan have a bedroom without a window? I thought that wasn't allowed by code.

Not gong to lie im stumped for this one. Layout is crazy but at the same time, I'd keep it like it is in the unit no splitting. I would change the entry doors to the apartment. But if you decided to split the unit wouldnt you have to put in another furnace?

It could have been worse but definitely could have been a lot better. They left a lot behind and I cannot believe they left things in the refrigerator/freezer. wow. You were brave to touch that wall with that gross stain. lol I'm sure everyone is happy they are gone now since they smelled that bad. I'm terrible with visualizing floor plans, so sorry I am of no help with that.

To make those legal apartments you need to close off the passthrough door in the kitchen then by fire code both sides of the wall need 5/8 fire rated drywall on each side . the living room drywall the 2 doors the toilet so close to the shower is very very stupid . honestly to divide this place the electrical work alone is a few grand needs a new main panel new entrance new meter . the hvac to move or split that is another few grand the plumbing is going to be a few grand . the permits to do the work could be 3 grand and from the video honestly from someone whos done renos long enough im not certain its worth the money because nobodys going to pay $2,000 a month for a studio or 11/2 which is about all your going to get out of it . from the looks of the floor plan in all honesty it cant be done because chances are the town are going to ding you badly for the size of the hallways plus is there a fire egress route and chances are some of those walls are structurally. Hallways have to be at min 36" wide to 48" wide doors are 36" wide .

Thats a huge apartment

Rentals should not have carpet at all. No little plat shades - look cheap & easily broken.

I wonder if the tenant drank too much🤔. Try airbnb for party people. No need to drink and drive you already home.

Is it just me thinking the layout of that apartment is really crazy and like a drunken maze?? Did I miss the living room and bedrooms I'm confused

Leave it as it is because it will cost a lot more to redo into another apt

Bring an architect in and get their suggestions. Of course, if that isn't too expensive.

Go to local uni and offer it up to a architect class (with all known info on plumbing and structural walls etc). Maybe offer a prize for amazing suggestions. Or send pizzas. They are likely informed in ways we aren’t about reality of design, construction, engineering. Or hire a professional. Me? I would make the kitchen better make the one bathroom better and leave it alone and get better tenants. Maybe promote the listing to the local schools and professional offices. There’s always somebody new moving to the community. A big huge apartment would be great for a lot of people. And you can put a specific clause in the contract that if you have to remove stickers/ residue there is a huge fine for it. 😊 I would love a great big huge apartment with enormous windows, and I would pay up for it, especially if it was done up nicely. I think the store beneath it are fine and while I don’t drink, I would love the convenience store because they’re convenient. I think if you wanted to make changes to that apartment, I would improve the kitchen in that bathroom and leave it big and find good people.

I can understand why landlords are picky, about the tenants they rent to

Stickers on the doors = kids. Her car window, too :-) Nice apartment when you look past the damage they did. 2 apartments would be tight, but doable.

How bad was it before ?

How much does this apartment rent for?It's a really nice place.

Liked the apartment space until i saw the kitchen. Because even the windowless room could be a craft space or office. But that kitchen isnt b8g enough to hold food and d8shes for a family. So it needs a pantry.

too bad they ruined a great apartment didn't even take the plastic covering off the fridge......slobs

the reason you have stickers on so many doors in the places you rent is obvious: you are renting to families with kids. pretty much every kid up to about 9 loves to have a few stickers on their textbooks, computers, and probably all over their bedrooms. the bedroom door is a prime spot, especially on the inside where the parents might not ever notice it until they move out and then they are trying to scrape off 7 month sticker glue off the door.

It is a pork roast like meat

Seen worse all things are a easy fix I would charge for items removed cleaning and bathroom damage

You need an architect for this one.

Hey what about keeping it like it is and renting the bedrooms by the room? That's been my new real estate play lately. I bought a 3/bed/3 bath house and I rent the 2 upper level rooms on the first and second floor for $1,000 each a month furnished with utilities/internet and the private basement studio for $1,200 a month to travel nurses. To boot It saves the nurses hundreds of dollars each month since anywhere else would be $1,500 and up! (I make more money and they save money so it's a win/win for all of us)

I've seen a lot worse

I sent you an email with an updated floor plan.

Yeap you can split it. A two door wall, a door right there in hallways .one going right the other going forward also creates space for another furnace

How about doing one apartment and one office (or some kind of hobby space)? No need for a kitchen. No shower. I rent a house to 4 hobby-space tenants and most days nobody is around at all.

Of course we know that all bedrooms require a closet and a window. Maybe you can work something out. But look on the bright side if you can. My husband and I had a rental, the first tenant got sick and had to be transported by ambulance back to his home state (3 months rent down the drain there, and let's not talk about the damage his dog did). The second tenants seemed ideal. They always paid their rent on time. They stayed there for almost 5 years. But when they up and left with hardly any notice, we found out the brutal truth. First of all, my $2500 Whirlpool bottom freezer French door refrigerator was GONE! GONE with the wind! My Whirlpool gas stove looked like someone had taken a baseball bat to it, the glass door was smashed. And please know these were new appliances when we started renting the place out. I told my husband, never again. Within a couple of months, we had sold the place, and at a profit. NEVER AGAIN! I now understand why landlords are so strict. I didn't ask for a deposit from my first tenant because he was a friend, but the second tenant didn't ask for a deposit refund, gee, I wonder why! If we were younger we might continue to try and rent, but we're too old for this sh*t!

Eliminate the dining room and expand your kitchen into the dining room, then open the wall between the dining room and living room. Apartments don't need both

Stop complaining! It was lived in... There is a such thing as normal wear and tear. That place doesn't look bad at all...

Seems your company rents to anybody and your properties keep getting trashed. And who rents an apartment with holes in the walls and the plastic still on the appliances ? Someone had to ok that ? lol

You don't ask tenants to leave you tell them

what a dump.

No that would make it to small. And those doors I hate! You can hear everything and they’re just ugly. 😕