"A few months" is NEVER acceptable unless you've got an amazingly great reason AND get that stipulated in the letter.Examples include frozen ground if you need to dig (work has to wait until spring), can't paint the exterior due to cold weather (paint doesn't cover well when it's frozen), etc.My crystal ball tells me that you're about to get into a WORLD OF HURT.

Just be careful people on here have had their number frozen for sending too many texts in a short period of time

So many people want to be in this business, but they sit on the sidelines frozen in terror.

Wouldn't they all be under snow right now and frozen?

At that time they noticed that the meter had frozen the previous winter after a pipe burst.

If you are asking your PM questions that your agent should be able to answer, he may be busy dealing with frozen pipes and lack of heat- two issues that are dominating our time today. 

I''m a HVAC guy and the 90% of the time a frozen unit is because of lack of air flow (dirty filter, bad blower motor, restricted ducts) or lack of freon.

In my area no electricity would mean frozen pipes, I assume you do not have that problem. 

I have three rentals under the same insurance company - one of the three they refuse to insure for water damage (from broken/frozen pipes, etc.).  

If it's a foreclosure and the baseboards have frozen and split you'll have bigger issues to deal with.