Our yurt needs help and we're totally lost!!!

[zenyurt]

Hi all, I am brand new to the forums! I checked it out in the past but just finally registered today to see if I can get some advice... We bought a house in North Monterey County on 3.5 acres a few years ago and there was a yurt on the property. I was so excited about it, and my husband and I have come up with tons of ideas on what we could do with it... yoga studio, craft room, guest quarters, airbnb... but, the reality is that it needs some serious help! It is unfinished, but was being lived in before we bought the place. They had it hooked up to an extension cord plugged into the house, and a water heater and gas stove using small propane tanks. There is no flooring and whoever put it up didn't do a great job. The platform is too small so they overlapped the fabric, wall boards aren't evenly cut and have gaps between them, insulated lining is falling down from the ceiling, the

dome

is slipping, ceiling beams are unevenly spaced, there is some water damage.. Basically, it's a mess! We want to get it all fixed up, looking nice, and properly functioning but we don't have the knowledge, skill, time, energy, or strength to do what needs to be done. We're willing to pay someone, but have no idea how much it might cost or where to even begin to look for someone who might be qualified to do it. We do live near the Santa Cruz Mountains, so I'm sure there are people out there, just not sure how to find them.


Sorry this is so long! I think to begin with I would love to have some opinions on what kind of costs we might be looking at, if we can fix what needs fixing or should we take it all down and start over? Do we need a bigger platform? How can we add on a deck? Currently most of the windows are too high to reach so we can't open them without using a ladder to reach them (would love to add real windows that can be opened from the inside). Feel free to check out the pictures in my album "Our yurt" to get an idea what we're up against, and I welcome any and all suggestions! Thank you! Kim