He Doesn't Know About The Window

We entered the manor and I realised that the interior was almost as bad as how the building looked outside.

It was clear that he either didn't have time to fix and clean this place up since there was still debris and broken pieces of furniture scattered around the place… Or that he is just some lazy idiot who chose to leave this place as it is.

"Err… Nice place you got here," I told him a little lamely. "Is there anything I should know before we start our investigation?"

He paused for a moment as he shut the front door, "Umm… I guess you should know that I'm not familiar with this building since I only recently got the place…"

That kind of contradicts what you said earlier but I decided not to point that out… If he really only recently got this place then how the heck would he be able to have managed to get those permits? That is assuming that there were even such permits in the first place, of course.