Crawl through the attic to see if a pipe busted from a freeze and leaked or that a possum didn't die and leak either.

Welcome back to sub freezing temps and an overabundance of snow, J ; ) Missing Atlanta yet?

To prevent the pipes from freezing . " I cant heat all that" I told him he must get oil by tomorrow 5 pm somehow ,somewhere , or I will have to kill the water and winterize the house .

It was 32 degrees BELOW freezing this morning.

Usually, the leases I see have language stating that Landlord has the right to provide utilities and I delete that and say that Tenant will go directly to the utility provider and we then add language to say that the utilities will be paid and pipes will not freeze and all that protective stuff -- or, the Landlord says that there is only one meter and we either state that Tenant will pay to separate or some other "sharing" language.However, in this recent deal the Landlord states that the utilities are separately metered but Landlord wants the right to force Tenant to buy the utilities from Landlord instead of the utility provider and even agrees that the cost will not exceed what Tenant would have paid the utility provider -- but Landlord has expressed on no uncertain terms (rather rudely in fact) that he will not change the language and will walk from the deal if we require the change.

If they do that -- like keep heat at decent range and open cabinet door to sinks to prevent freezing on cold nights or whatever, then the pipes freeze anyway, you are likely the one paying for the repairs, not them.  

In fact, I had a tenant that really pissed me off recently when they abandoned a little kitten, outside in sub-freezing weather, after I evicted them.

nope, hell didn't freeze over.. wow Josh did you really ask Real Estate Investors to be patient?

Will they stick to a 30 day freeze or try to lock rates for multiple years.

My father in law was just telling me that he had a place that someone broke the outside spigot by using it in freezing weather and not draining it so he ran out, cut the pipe off and threw a sharkbite cap on it to fix it until spring.