The cost a couple dollars more but the mounting hardware is much more secure.  

They also have the dummy cameras for cheap that blink that you can mount on the house.

as it started as a simple Rental Turnover job, then morphed after the real damage began to reveal itself, then I bought my siblings out and took out the loan, and the repairs mounted and culminated in a new kitchen, flooring, lighting, appliances (the old were un-rentable/repairable) is it possible for me to treat some of the expenditures as repairs, maintenance, and 5 - 7 and 15 year depreciation on certain items, and just add the 27.5 year items to the cost basis.

The receptacle is center mounted near the floor so that the range slides over it. 

I keep a few motor and start/run caps at my house, as well as nozzles and electrodes for the oil furnaces, a thermostat, and a spare transformer.

Things to make sure aren't missing when you move out:damaged or missing screensdamaged or missing mini-blinds and those wands that open and close themmissing lightbulbs (and one time, a missing light fixture)missing toilet paper holdersmissing sink stoppersbroken/missing towel racksmissing or dead batteries in CO and smoke detectors/missing smoke detectorsmissing ice cube traysmissing stove top burner rack(s)If a tenant installed a wall mounted flat screen, the wall repair will be charged to them.

It's no different than using heavy motor oil to quiet knocking cylinders in an engine that's ready to blow up because you really need to sell the car and a new engine 'isn't in the budget' and "the sales contract doesn't specifically say that the engine won't blow up in a week"

For tax write off it is beneficial to repair versus replace.So depending on how much rent you would lose you would have to weigh repair versus putting new in.I totally understand if a part is 50 bucks you do not want to spend 600 or more for a new one.Especially if it is not that old.I gave 100 rent credit to a tenant when the A/C was out for a few days.The outside fan motor needed replacement so rather than the A/C guy saying I need a new one at 2 grand we bought the fan motor at a supply house for 60 and fixed it.So 2,000 versus 160 I will take the repair all day long.Especially if you have a property you are planning on selling for development down the road you don't want to drop all new stuff in.Sure a developer will let me strip it out and cash out the parts before they take it down but I want to keep my replacements to as little as possible and only repair.If you do too much the tenant will keep pushing the envelope.If I was in your shoes I would definitely give a credit to the tenant.After you get the part fixed and the credit you are still probably ahead versus replacement in cash outlay.Another consideration is if the water heater goes out on the weekend you might be better giving the credit versus paying for an emergency call and getting hit up with double the fees for everything.

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Smoke detectors are mounted on the ceiling and carbon monoxide detectors are usually plugged into a receptacle or installed lower on the wall or close to the floor.3.