ᐅ Semi-detached house for rent. Feedback and suggestions are welcome.

Pinky0301 schrieb:

Is there one heating system for all the houses together?

No, each half has its own separate heating system.

Vitalio schrieb:

each half gets a separate heating system

Why? Do you want to drill six times then?
I’ve never looked into this topic before, but I would imagine that one large system might be more cost-effective than six smaller ones, similar to apartment buildings. The advantage would be that no technical equipment is needed inside the houses.
That reminds me: our last house was a townhouse. The row of houses was connected to a high-rise building. We didn’t have an individual heating system in the house.

11ant schrieb:

Okay, so it will be a semi-detached house.

Still, use standard catalog models.

From the way you describe the market, there is excess demand for building semi-detached houses (these are also offered by developers), but for rent (which they do not offer, and that would be your market niche). So choose a design for a semi-detached house (and take advantage both of the freedom of the undivided plot and diversify your risk by creating uneven halves for similar but not identical target groups; in other words, avoid a strict 50/50 division).

Build a semi-detached house about 7m/8m wide (23ft/26ft) and already look for tenants during the planning phase, offering them some influence – almost like a developer, but renting instead. Of course, in a limited way only (no full floor plan negotiations with the first tenants, just allow relocation of a maximum of two non-load-bearing walls, choice of floor coverings, and so on). I also always recommend a standard variation (for example, a “masonry” walk-in shower in the 8m unit and only a glass cabin in the other, a double vanity in the larger unit, and standard basins in the smaller one, etc.), but strictly speaking, a batch size of two residential units is peanuts for an investor project, just mentioning this for clarity.

I don’t see any point in discussing floor plans with you since you do not want to build for personal use. Investment properties should be approached unemotionally and market-oriented. You have already taken the first step, which is market-oriented, by analyzing the market and deciding on the semi-detached design. Now you should refine this further (see my suggestion of standard differentiation and attracting initial tenants early), and take the second step: don’t turn the floor plan into your baby.

I like the idea of a shared heating system or a common utility room for both units – but how does @kaho674 come up with a six-family house???

THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!! I needed this advice.

11ant schrieb:

Ah yes, okay. In #23 the plot seems suitable both for three semi-detached houses and already has three garages assigned with house numbers in the upper right area (???)

That’s correct, there are 3 garages on the plot that I will use as storage during the construction phase.

The sewer connection is available and is near the garages, so the wastewater pipes will run toward the garden (the utility room facing the garden is suitable). The water supplier is cooperating; they will install a manhole with the main meter, and from there we will lay the pipes into the houses. The only issue is the electricity supplier, who insists on separate connections for each unit.

11ant schrieb:

Yes, but now there should be one or three semi-detached houses – where does the 15 m (49 feet) width limit come from on the large plot?

I just wanted to ask about the floor plan first and not reveal everything right away.

15 m (49 feet) because you have to maintain a 6 m (20 feet) distance between the houses and 3 m (10 feet) to the neighbor.

Pinky0301 schrieb:

Why? Do you want to drill six times then?
I’ve never dealt with this topic before, but I could imagine that a large system might be more cost-effective than six small ones, similar to apartments. An advantage would be that no technical equipment is needed inside the houses.
That reminds me: our last house was a townhouse. The row of houses was connected to a high-rise building. We didn’t have an individual heating system in the house.

This works with townhouses because most are built with basements and the houses are connected to each other; it’s more difficult with semi-detached houses. I’m still keeping the option of selling (unlikely) open. Yes, the easement for the pipes needs to be registered, but the buyer doesn’t have to install their own system, and if there was no space planned for one, it becomes even more complicated.

Vitalio schrieb:

I wanted to first ask about the floor plan and not reveal everything right away.

People like me can easily switch from being helpful to annoyed with this simple trick, and you also end up regretting advice based on wrong assumptions. You can now strike my comment about the peanuts, but the suggestion about differentiation needs to be considered at a higher scale. Based on the "new business basis," I would now advise differently: my previous advice still applies to the two outer semi-detached houses; in construction phase I, I would place a two-family house in the middle, with integrated garages on the street side, a garden-level granny flat on the ground floor, and a bungalow on top; in phase IIa, a semi-detached house on the left side of the plan, and in phase IIb, demolish the old garages and build a semi-detached house on the right side of the plan.

Vitalio schrieb:

The only utility company balks and wants a connection for each half.

Nonsense. A multi-family house does not need multiple connection rooms just because it is spread over three building units — at least not as long as you don’t subdivide the property legally. I renew my recommendation for a central utility connection room and add the suggestion to consider the keyword combined heat and power plant. By the way, the project is slowly reaching a stage where
1. Your inheritance planning becomes a topic requiring professional advice, and
2. it should be an honor for builders of semi-detached and two-family houses to present you with proposals.

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