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Sensi-Temp in electric stoves a pain to deal with as landlord?
I just had to replace an electric glasstop stove recently, and decided to spend less for the rental property and go with coil burner type than another glasstop. But I just came to know about new feature by law in this type of stove and how it can be problematic instead of what it was supposed to do.
In fact, my tenant is complaining what appears to be this particular problem. I'm likely considering replacing the burners than to replace the stove.
But I just wanted to post here to pose 2 questions to the community:
* to see how widespread this problem is for landlords, as I can't possibly be the only one. For me the home is all electric so it's either this coil stove, or glasstop, or induction stove as choices. Also, in reading reviews for the stove where I bought from Lowes (after the fact, should have done more research), landlords gave positive reviews for this cheap stove, I wonder if their tenants ever complained, as the complains came for actual "users" of the stove.
* how informed are local appliance repair companies to know to how to replace sensi-temp burner coils with the old style ones without the sensors, since I'm remote and use a property manager, and don't expect the tenant to DIY. I'd rather avoid many trips going through vendors to replace the burner or hoping to avoid 2 trips, first to inspect burner then order the replacement part and come back to install it