Hartford tenant improvement demolition between leases
Selective removal in the gap between one tenant leaving and the next arriving. What stays is protected, what goes is documented, and the incoming fit-out starts from a condition everyone has agreed.
The temptation between tenancies is to strip everything back to base build because it is simple to specify. It is often the wrong call. Serviceable ceiling grid, a sound raised floor, functioning washrooms and usable partitions all have value to an incoming tenant, and putting them back costs far more than leaving them.
The opposite error is just as expensive: leaving a layout that no incoming tenant will accept, then paying to remove it under time pressure once the lease is signed. We walk the space with the leasing plan in hand and mark keep, remove and decide-later, so the demolition serves the letting strategy.
Disputes between landlord, outgoing tenant and incoming tenant almost always come down to what condition the space was in at a particular moment, and almost nobody has the evidence. A photographic record on the day the unit is handed over costs an hour and settles arguments that otherwise run for months.
We photograph the space at handover as standard, including capped services, the state of the slab and deck, and anything that was already damaged before we arrived. Where the incoming fit-out needs more taken out later, that becomes its own scope rather than an argument about what was implied.
