By doing a candle test around the house to check for drafts around windows or air ducts, you can easily determine places that need a bit of a patch so the cold air can stay outside.Re-Use An Old ItemWhen re-designing a space in your home, it’s tempting to run out to Pottery Barn or IKEA to pick out something new, but re-using an old piece can go a long way towards lessening your footprint.

Put some good food  in the middle of the living room floor , some candles , some mood music to set the tone .  

Here in Portlandia your more likely to get assaulted for some violation of none recycling or some other weirdo hippie thing  ( I am dating myself).

But their combined wealth does not hold a candle to most of my real estate investor clients who had a dream of escaping the life of waking up every morning to a 9-to-5 and contributing to their perfectly-allocated Roths and 401ks and HSAs.Just my two cents.

I don't think he is really balking at it so much as I live in a place with a lot of well meaning 'hippie' types and they just don't understand or believe that these sort of things are important. 

I went to see one of these fourplexes and one of the units I was looking had a shotgun hole on the door with several candles around a guys's picture.

Candles under curtains gets rid of squatters real quick.  

Best practice is to make the call to change the utilities at lease signing, together.Be aware that tenants without electricity sometimes do dangerous things, like use candles for light, charcoal/gas grills for cooking (sometimes inside!)

You just don't get it.I'm gonna bring 15 of my hippie friends and we're gonna get super stoned in your house, man.

In my opinion, the crime in Manchester can't hold a candle to any comparable cities in MA and the sidewalks are much cleaner.