I just wasn't planning to do it in such circumstances, when it's freezing outside and my tenant spends a night without any heating, with the possibility of pipes freezing....plus to pay a top price for it... when the furnace is perfectly fine to make it through the winter. 

I'm all for that...it's FREEZING here and 80 degree weather sounds heavenly right about now

For if I had predicted at the beginning of 2008 we would experience freezing credit markets, bankruptcies and near bankruptcies of our largest of financial institutions, massive amounts of taxpayer monies used to "save" the financial system, the worst recession numbers since the Great Depression, unemployment at 7% and rising, mortgage defaults at unprecedented levels, "deleveraging" on a global basis -- and toss in oil going from $95 a barrel to $145 a barrel and back to $37 -- then you would have sought to admit me into a mental ward for treatment last January.

With the snow cover and freeze we just had I couldn't tell how many layers it had.

Unfortunately, it was about 8:00 pm on the night before Thanksgiving and it was freezing cold.

In addition to the snow, we received about 36hrs of freezing rain on he 22nd & 23rd which put a 1/2" layer of ice on the snow that was already down.

That is part of the move in make ready procedure for me, with the exception of exteriors in freezing weather. 

There are more Theranos' than Googles out there, and it seems like venture capital has drawn back a little bit, which seems to be leading to a freeze on hiring in startups.

16 years ago I inherited land in downtown Philadelphia and I can see the trends building in this area and know that it's only going to become a more affluent neighborhood.

My question or concern is that I know what I...

Besides the regular tenant nightmare issues like tenants letting the pipes freeze due to services being disconnected for non-payment, property damages, ongoing calls about plumbing issues, and the list goes on and on and on... there are other reasons (when dealing with Section 8 tenants) that would not make it cost-effective to be an absentee landlord that doesn't bother with their tenants.There are routine inspections, repair reports, fluctuations in rent portions, and times where NHA will abate (not withhold) rent due to failed inspections.