Your tenants will not be happy campers especially if the heat goes out.

As for the $100/200 door, if you need a heating system for example, your cash flow is gone for a really long time, and you better hope you have no other big repairs.

Gas heating is currently the most efficient way to heat your home, but there are drawbacks.

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that is what we normally do but I do market it as having the generator so that water and heat isn't an issue in a storm.   

It is 7 feet high finished basement remodeled with wide plank wood flooring, drop ceiling and gypsum boards, heated withbaseboard heaters hydronic. thanks for input. 

Same with heat; there are many stories of landlords who go by their rentals in the middle of winter and find the heat jacked up to searing levels, tenants walking around in shorts and half the windows in the place open.

Today the tenant called saying they had no heat for months.

Just tonight, 11/1 I had a no heat call.

I'm an active multi-family commercial real estate agent here in LA for the past 9 years and I have gotten into heated discussions with smart people regarding this topic.