My apartment units are 1.5 ton for 1,200 sq ft and it can freeze the tenants out it works so well.I am not an A/C expert but 2.5 ton seems like a lot but I could be wrong.Those prices quoted seem to me retail pricing.You can definitely hit better numbers than that.You just have to look around.

Constantly freezes and if you need to go back into your text to edit something, the caps lock then remains on until you exit the post...

I live in CA so don't have any snow/freezing temp issues.

Then they tried to make an improvement to help it sell but got shoddy craftmanship (and unfinished work) and ended up with pipes freezing as a result in their vacant house and had extensive water damage as well as needing full new plumbing, heating and probably electrical.

If for any reason you have to move it out, it stays on location and is kept in basement or garage,, and if fridge has water line for ice maker,, then drain that so it won't freeze up and crack if stored during winter, smallest line can cause the biggest headache they are hard to winterize. 

I am a first time landlord and with the weather her in Ohio projected to get down to -7 I am a little concerned about pipes freezing.

Another option would be for them not to throw in the trash any food, just freeze their food leftovers and throw them the day the trash it's being picked up.

I read an article about a proposed prop tax freeze during years that RE prices decline, however im not sure what has happened with this bill.

I work for my local municipality and we don't charge for a frozen meter in an outside pit, if in house and freezes that would probably be owner responsibility

Two months after purchase, my PM was turning over the house to first tenant only to find out that the furnace had quit allowing upstairs bathroom to freeze and leak water into 1st floor bathroom and finally onto furnace and hot water heater in basement.