aging dog, weird housing life
Kitty has been having some incontinence issues as she's gotten older which has led to more than one pissing incident in our building's front hallway. my landlord was trying to sell the building like four months ago but he just texted to say he's going to see about getting his contractor to replace the front hall carpet with hard flooring, which is thoughtful but also seems like a weird expense if you're really planning to sell this place?
aging dog, weird housing life
@ingrid For what it’s worth, flooring costs about $10 a square foot, so a hallway is cheap and easy and any realtor is going to say first impressions matter.
Every building has its problems, but buyers want to feel like there aren’t more surprises, so anything that looks like maintenance helps reassure.
aging dog, weird housing life
@max that's a good point, just feel like I'd be more concerned with the building foundation than the carpet. Then again I will never be able to afford a house.
aging dog, weird housing life
@ingrid a bad carpet suggests a bad foundation
aging dog, weird housing life
for this kind of building in this part of Brooklyn, the most likely buyer is going to gut the whole place anyway, so while it is a decent move on his part for our quality of life it's pretty irrational for him to spend more money on things like this if he really wants to sell in the next year. very confusing mixed messages!!