One house has actually not been terrible to turn over, but the other one has needed a couple thousand dollars in "re-conditioning" after each tenant.

Auto zones tend to have a larger footprint and go in former Rite Aid's, CVS's, etc.Possible might be a batteries plus store. 5 years off is a long way and nobody has a crystal ball.

We also do our own maintenance/turnovers when we can as we've found they charge a lot for labor, so things like re-screening windows, changing smoke alarm batteries, light fixtures, etc., can be ridiculously expensive if you let them do it. 

Electronic Lifts- disconnect the battery if leavingfor long term storage.K.

Electronic Lifts- disconnect the battery if leaving for long term storage.K.

The advice from the HVAC Guy that put the boiler in, was to leave the old manual T-Stat, because if a tenant moves out at midnight in January, the heat will still work, because they dont require batteries, like the digital ones do.  

Its battery went bad after a couple of months but I can only afford to buy a used battery which was smaller than the battery it had.

I had relatively few problems with the tenants - the biggest one was when they didn't replace the smoke detector batteries!

You can plug in or run off the internal rechargeable battery.

Also runs on a 9V rather than (4) AA batteries since the motor isn't working nearly as hard.