Hi guys and gals,
I need an un-biased opinion here. I just bought another house that we will turn into a rental unit. It is an HUD house, around 1000sq, 3 bedroom 1 bath ranch. Expected rental $650-700.
I am working with a management company that I never work with. The house has been empty for 6-7 years, so I asked them to have their electrician to:
1. Disconnect an electric line going from roof to a shed in the backyard. We are taking the shed out because it is in very bad shape.
2. Check the electric to make sure everything is ok.
3. Installed 2 GFI, in the kitchen and bathroom. Bathroom do not have outlet, so I ask to add an outlet.
The electrician did the above. Not sure exactly what he did for no 2, but for no 3, he installed 2 GFI in the living room. The explaination from the maintenance coordinator from this company is "The electrician has explained his rationale for doing what he did. He installed a GFI breaker to take care of the kitchen receptacles because those receptacles are not daisy-chained. He did not install a GFI in the bathroom because there is no existing receptacle. In the absence of a receptacle, code does not require you to have a GFI there, so he has electrically brought the house to “code existing” status." It took the electrician about 2 weeks to complete the task. We notice he left several outlets with wires out for about 2 weeks before putting everything back together.
Guess what is the bill? An even $1000.
Is this company trying to screw me? I am no expert here, but something do not sounds right to me. This job cant be that expensive. This company also gave me some quote for things that I like to fix, and their quotes are very high, but thats another conversation topic.
Appreciate any input you can give me. The maintenance coordinator has not been returning my call in the past 3 days, so something is up and I need to have make decision if we want to move forward with this company or not. We have signed a document that we want them to manage this property, and I am not sure I want to deal with them moving forward if they are charging me a very high rate like this.