Check your Plumbing Connections

[Steve K]

Just passing along a quick tidbit for landlords out there. Over the holidays one of my houses had an issue where the pressure line attached to the dishwasher came apart while the tenant was out of town. The root cause was it was never installed correctly. Tenant came home to find water pouring down the driveway. House was totally flooded and the insurance damage estimate was just south of 40k.

Now I make it standard practice to have my handyman test every plumbing connection in every property. Easy to do and well worth spending a few bucks to make sure you don't run into unneccessary problems.

During this process I also learned that it's very difficult to get new policies written while you have any open claims, so if you do run into an insurance issue - get it resolved quickly if you're slated to close on new property.