To Salt or Not To Salt?

[Austin Davis]

Happy Saturday BP!

I just switched property managers yesterday and the question came up when signing my lawn and snow contract if I would like salt applied in the winter or not.  Apparently it is a liability if a child eats the salt.  I am assuming the other more likely liability would be if someone fell and got hurt because of ice.  There are just a few children that live in my buildings, but the neighbors have some children too.

My opinion is that I should salt, because I would assume it would  be pretty unlikely for a kid to eat it, but wanted to bounce that off the community in case I am missing something.

Would providing salt for the tenants to apply themselves take this liability off me?