Air Filter Replacement

[Marcel Bryar]

I'm renting out a condo and a prospective tenant asked me if I would supply the air filters for the unit's HVAC system.  I hadn't thought about that before and it sounds like a reasonable request since I'm expecting the tenants to replace the filter but i thought I would ask folks here for their take.  Any advice is greatly appreciated.  Thanks

[Gail K.]

I always supply a box of a dozen filters when a tenant moves in.  I then show them how and when to change the filters and to let me know when they need a new supply and put a new one in the return to show them how this is done.  I stress that regularly changing these will help greatly with heating and cooling costs.

More often than not there's still 11 in the box when they move out.

For many tenants the only way to make certain these will be changed out regularly is if I go over and do this myself.

Gail