Can I measure the outside of the house and exclude any non cooled or heated areas?

The ONLY hesitation I have is that the unit has electric heat.

Hi all,What could cause a sewer smell to come out of an air conditioning/HEAT vents?

One of the most tramatic events for a out of area landlord is changing PM's  either their turn key company went out of business and folded PM  or PM company folds.. seen that many times.. so you always want to have a pulse on who you can move to if needed.The marketing of turn key is as you state Alex a very fluid thing with turnkey marketers who are really just real estate brokers but for some reason kind of hide behind a veil of non disclosure until you deep in the deal...

You can call utility companies to see whether the heat is on.

There are limited funds in my account for this house ( I don't want to have to dip into my personal funds ) and we have continued to give the extensions reluctantly when they have asked  but now I feel the other party should pick up the costs going forward... why should we continue to pick up the cost of our mortgage and heat and such through no fault of ours.

For $1300 extra that I'll spend on house wrap and labor, I don't want to take the risk.I have not built multi family yet from scratch, but my company has gutted and remodeled several buildings in uptown Mpls that were converted into condos.I know of only one multi family developer in the Twin Cities that understand the concept of exterior foam insulation and reduction of thermal bridging who uses zip wall system.Yes, you pay more upfront, but if you plan to keep the building for 5-7 years you recoup the entire cost of zip wall system by paying less for heating and cooling.In commercial construction, smart developers used exterior foam insulation since 1980s, I had a building in Hopkins that had that.

Thier average electric bill is  $150 and  during heating months it is $350 to add heat to that for a total of $500.   

There is a valve on the boiler system we keep because  we have had one fail, there are five of them and we had to wait on the replacement part for this one when it failed meaning heat did not travel to that zone.

I kept hearing that the Dallas market was going to be heating up, real estate was at an all time low and interest rates were insanely low.