In the beginning expect to travel more often than you may like but once you have a system in place will become less frequent.

So in many ways, I understand the needs and desires of business professionals that frequent remote cities on short-term engagements, thus giving me an advantage (superficially).

No need to highlight that I never should have signed--I am aware and there is a HUGE back story as to why I did that is not significant to the question at hand.Due to frequent flooding, we were planning to have an overhead sewer line installed, as well as a sump pit for the basement plumbing, an ejector pit for the upstairs/exterior water that was leading to the flooding, and tying in the downspouts to the mainline at the front exterior of the house underground.The project, which was estimated to last about 15-20 days, took more like 10-11 full days.

Hi,Allison.When there are two people living in an apartment when once there was one, twice as much laundry is going through the washer and dryer, and they break down more frequently.

My 2 cents: I grew up in the Chicago suburbs and go there frequently to visit siblings that still reside there.

Always do the follow up many times, soon and frequently. 

I have been travelling there frequently and started to look into MF there as well. 

I would make sure that your PM does frequent checks of the property to catch other problems early on.

The heat exchangers fail most frequently on the propane boilers due to the high acidity, low temperatures the propane condensing units run at, my friend who owns a 3rd Generation heating/plumbing company doubts those units will ever come close to outlasting a traditional 3 pass boiler.Agree the pros of having a propane boiler/furnace-fuel is cleaner, services tend to be cheaper, tanks can be bought or fuel company can supply tank, work great if you also have a tankless hot water heater with same fuel source.Efficiency of Maine does offer rebates as well for the high efficiency units, they don't mention this but, if you insulate all baseboard piping that is exposed in the basement, take photos and have a high efficiency oil boiler they will qualify as the same rebate as the propane unit.

The switch is a PITA and a notorious problem with other well owners down here because the switch is outside and exposed to the elements and fireants and frequently fail.