Gather branches from trees for firewood instead of turning on heat.

This dude with no profile pic on his second post will ask about buying a $179,000 triplex built in, say, 1925 in a place like Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania. he'll have some description sheet ginned up by the seller with some vague language about the questionable roof and the convoluted heating system and all he'll want to know is if it's a good deal...the cash flow upside looks awesome, PLEASE HELP!!!

In addition, the person closed up the apartment before he committed suicide and did so during a heat wave. 

Hey BP community,I'm a first time homebuyer that wants to make my first home a rental down the road and I'm evaluating a property in Hurst that I have an opportunity to jump on pre-market.Here are the details on the house:1316 Redbud dr. 3bd/2bath1910sqft, 10+ year old AC/Heat system 4 yr old roofold water heaterThe house needs new floors in all bedrooms and the kitchen needs updating.Enclosed rear porch.The comps in the immediate area, based on my rookie evaluation came out around 220k and they want 230k for the house as-is with a lease back option for a couple months to accommodate my upcoming wedding.

This is a tough business by itself to add heated debates with the owners - Tenants will squeeze life out of you, especially in such low income area. 

Recently, the tenant has been complaining about their high (nat gas) heating bill, and they said something like “since we don’t have a written rental agreement between the two of us, the law says that you are supposed to pay for heat.”

Electrical needs complete replacement (wiring, electrical box) but the house has newer roof and appliances (heating and water heater are recent), and the plumbing looks recent, which is all surprising given the state of the rest of the house...It's basically a roof and a brick frame with appliances.

Make sure you check heating and cooling systems as well regardless of season, and have the inspector show you how those items work, e.g. if its a boiler. 

So each furnace heats half of the main floor unit and one upstairs unit. 

They're also quite small and most have central space heaters to heat the whole unit.There are some newer properties sprinkled around that neighborhood and I'm sure some of the older ones have had structural upgrades but I just wanted to give you a heads up!