If the deal is good enough, i would inherit the tenants and get rid of them one at a time. especially in this cold winter. let them pay the heating bill for another month..lol

The available options for warranties break down into things like:exterior main water line coverageexterior main sewer line coverageinterior plumbing line coverageHVAC (cooling system) coverageHVAC (heating system) coveragehot water heater coverageelectrical system coverageWe broke down two viable options:Option 1:  Evaluate Risk/reward likelihood on each property as to whether we get individual coverage, total yearly cost of this is ~$2100/yr which comes to approximately ~2% of our gross rentsOption 2: Go with full coverage on every property we own, total yearly cost of this is ~$5100/yr, which comes to approximately 4.5% of our gross rents.We usually work off a 15% goal/assumption (of gross rents) that allows for costs tied to vacancy/maintenance/capEx items, which so far (been operating for 3-4 years) we have been significantly under that. 

The house is empty but the heat is on. 

If it's poorly insulated- the heat will melt the snow, then as the water will freeze to ice as it runs down to a lower, colder point on the roof. 

The solar covers all the tenants' electricity (UNLESS the tenants start a grow op or try to get around gas heating costs by using space heaters.

It was significantly cheaper than waiting for it to fail and replacing it during the heating season.

If one boiler(owner pays), if multiple meters it is forced air (usually on the tenants), if none electric heat (usually tenants pay).

In a super-heated market, if & when you're willing to consider paying the premium, you need to look carefully at that NOI, because small tweaks there, mean small adjustments to value in a stable market, whereas sometimes small tweaks to the Market (AKA the Going Cap Rate ) can make or break you.   

The current heating system is propane fired FHW and the system is junk - he'll have to replace it completely.That lead us to a discussion about which heating systems would be the most desirable.

Run    Your heating bill would be over a grand a month .