Wish me luck; rental inspection!

[LillFilly]

Tomorrow is the rental inspection that we must have done on our, technically, multi-family dwelling (house w/4 unrelated people living in it) every 2-years. (PS, it's an unusual relationship; one of the housemates' mothers owns the house. She rents it to us for a song, so long as we do all repairs, replacements, upkeep, etc. that a landlord would usually do - in return, she said we can do anything we want to the house. But it's still a landlord/tenant situation so we still need the inspection)

I've spent the last month doing trimming, yardwork, gardening, house painting, carpet cleaning, etc.

I've mentioned the one inspector for my town is a jerk, and picky. He can't fail you for having weeds in your garden or not liking your wall art, but he can be dickish by sending you the inspection results at the last minute, or hinting he's had complaints about the state of your house.

All he can pass/fail us on are smoke/CO2 detectors, handrails, and safe staircases, really. And those are all in order!

But he makes me nervous all the same, even though neighbors walking by constantly praise our yard and gardens.

I'm so nervous, that when the lawnmower died today, I did the ENTIRE yard using the weedwacker!

So, yeah...

[taxguykarl]

May the force be with you.

[Sapphire Silk]

Do you live in the UK?

[LillFilly]

Sooo,

We failed,

But because the smoke detectors we have are in the kitchen, basement and hallway outside 3-of the 4-bedrooms. For a rental property, there need to be smoke detectors in each bedroom. Which I told housemate over a year ago when he took over the 2nd bedroom, and again when housemate 2 took over the 3rd bedroom; and I was under the assumption that housemates 1 and 3 had already gotten detectors in their bedrooms.

So..we have to move those 3-detectors INTO the bedrooms, have the guy come back and see, and we're done.

If the housemates had only listened to me for the last year!!! Normally, where they are would be fine in a family HOUSE, but they forget we are a RENTAL!!!