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BLK 06 — Notes

Short notes on keeping buildings.

Opinions, mostly, and always brief. They are not legal, financial or investment advice.

The Manhattan skyline seen over low brick rooftops under a pale morning sky
Fig. 13Rooftops toward Midtown
Note 01 · 3 min read

The long way is usually the short way

A short holding period asks a building to perform on a schedule it did not choose. A long one lets it be what it is.

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Looking up at a red-brick New York tenement covered in black fire escapes under a blue sky
Note 02 · 4 min

How to read a building from the roof down

The roof edge, the stair, the cellar, the boiler: four places that tell you most of what you need to know.

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A weathered brick wall with a steel-framed window and a broken pane
Note 03 · 3 min

The quiet cost of waiting

Deferred maintenance never saves money. It moves the bill to a worse day.

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