Guides

Four questions that come with owning a roof over somebody else’s heat.

If a tenant heats the top floor, start there — it explains why the ice forms at your expense and what can be done about it while the roof is open. Buying a two-family is the guide for reading a roof before the offer. The registration guide covers what Rhode Island’s register does and does not prove. And the permit guide answers the question that decides who carries the risk: who pulls it.

• Renting the top floorWhen someone else heats the top floor
• Buying a two-familyBuying a two-family: what the roof is telling you
• Checking a contractorRegistered, and what that does and does not mean
• The permitWho pulls the permit, and why it matters

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