He ate Ramen noodles and oatmeal every day.

I know there are incentives or rebates through focus on energy, but with that program we cannot replace any of our heaters since they do not have incentives for electric base boards heaters and you need to replace your heating source with the same heating technology.

I could have put a bandaid on as it still worked but I pride my houses in being higher end and good quality.As we continued with the house, I ended up putting in over the top finishes such as heated tile floors in the master bath and sound insulation under the hardwood floors to reduce noise transmission to basement.

Same thing for the heat? 

The Madison / Southeast Wisconsin area is great because it is 2 hours or less away and has a great opportunity for investing as well, although the markets have really heated up recently especially with the announcement of Foxconn building near Racine. 

Considering installing a mini split heat pump in one of my SFR.

If it's something pressing (e.g. no heat) I will go over after work and do the service call. 

The editor is an insufferable a**hole, who deletes contrarian comments like he’s swiping mosquitos in the Florida heat. 

The house is a  2,331sqft sitting on a 5.8 acre lot built in 1991, 5bd/2bt only need cosmetic work, century air/heat, no tax or liens fully payed off.I ran some numbers property recently sold in that area price per sqft range from 85-100+ i want to flip it to on investor, I have called him trying to get him to give me a price but he don't want to give one i haven't make any offer either i told him am gonna run some numbers on get back to him with a fair off that would work fir both of us. 

Here are the options:1) replace with new furnace/AC for $5500 with good warranty.2) replace through-wall unit with AC/heat for about $700.