A small apartment building near my house is being renovated and they’ve removed all the windows and doors and covered them with plywood. Presumably there wasn’t a problem with EVERY window, so why take them all out and board them up? I imagine they were intending to replace them, but why take them out as the very first step in the reno?
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Windows break easily with little or no tools. Boards take more effort to remove to gain entry. Replace the windows with boards to keep squatters out when the building won’t be visited regularly or monitored for break-ins.
You don’t want people stripping the property of valuables like copper wire or damaging the building.
People that break into buildings to squat there don’t generally take care of the place.
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