I sure you don't don't see it in places where it freezes, but since it's totally temperate here, water supply and sewer lines are often installed on the outside.

Do you want to roast or freeze?

SEC Charges Utah Real Estate Investment Company and Its Principals With Operating a Ponzi Scheme and Obtains Order Freezing Assetshttps://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2016/lr...

Saturday and sunday, 70 from 9a-7p, 60 at night.You'll also want to make sure you don't risk any freezing pipes by lowering the temp at night.

Up this way, where winter means 5-6 months of below freezing (& 1-2 of below 0F), you always have a shutoff inside the conditioned space and then drain the remainder of the line to the outside spigot.Regardless of whose is at fault, it's your responsibility.

It's from the pipe freezing.

Being in WI at the end of winter, especially after the ridiculously cold winter we just had and seeing that it looked vacant, I was worried about freezing pipes or other winter damage if the heat had been turned off.

Then, what happens when you have 2 or 3 vacant AND they leave you with big repair bills and unpaid rent and you have to leave the utilities on while you are getting the units back to rent-ready because it's 10 degrees outside and you don't want the pipes to freeze?

By the time I kick the tenant out, cleaned the place up, marketed it to get a new tenant, at least 2 months would have passed.In addition to vacancy being lost revenue, the reality is, because of the costs of turnover, eviction, utilities need to be on to prevent pipes from freezing in the winter, etc., vacancy is also a COST not just lost revenue.

I have one house that suffered freezing damage before I bought it.