Properties with baseboard heating. What should I know about them?

[Quandra Adams]

My offer was just accepted on a duplex and being a first time home buyer AND house hacker, I'm equally excited and as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs but I digress. Anyway, has anyone ever had a property or lived in a home that had baseboard heaters? What was your experience as far as maintenance. I know nothing about them but this duplex has them. Any info pro & con would be helpful!

[Robert Cheek]

You are way over thinking this. I have about 75 units (houses and apartments) with electric baseboard heat. I love them, no gas furnace problems to contend with at midnight. I just turned replaced 3 heaters in a unit that were 20 years old , no maintenance during that whole time. The cost was only $200 total. I have built brand new rental homes and installed electric baseboard heaters because of how great they are. Sometimes the thermostat is on the heater itself and sometimes there is a wall thermostat, depending on the way the electric wiring was installed at time of the install.