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Dwight Cox
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Cold weather and plumbing

Dwight Cox
  • Rental Property Investor
  • Garner, NC
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Good evening.

We have just been hit with cold weather here in NC. The past week has been brutal, of course relative to how it has been. Of course 2 of my properties are experiencing plumbing issues.

You know the most frustrating part is the inconvenience for the tenants.

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    What issues are they experiencing?

    If it's frozen water pipes (and perhaps this is unusual; however, I don't know how "brutal" your weather has been where you are in NC.)  Here in Georgia we've not hit the problem but the leases I have do contain a clause that if the temperatures go below freezing the tenants are required to allow faucets to "drip" during the night to prevent pipes freezing.  If they leave during the winter holidays they are not to turn their heat off (as some like to do to save $$) or the cost of repairing frozen pipes will be on them when they return.

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