Chapter 26
I don’t have to think very hard.
A couple of years ago Diane, the property manager who used to manage Kylie’s portfolio, and I were doing a number of routine inspections together as we tried to get them up to date. We manage an old rabbit warren of a block and about half of the twenty-eight units in it were due to be inspected. Some were overdue. We sent off the letters for eight of them giving them a time between ten and eleven in the morning.
On the day we collected eight bunches of keys, the office camera and the inspection sheets and headed off. We began at the top of the block and worked our way down to the ground floor. Rather than having a central staircase the block has stairs at each end. We zigzagged down, opening doors, making notes, taking photos and locking up ag
