It is that time of year and this Winter has been extra cold in America. I wanted to share a few quick tips that have saved me from frozen pipes and a lot of headaches.My first tip is the most important, have your home...

Need a new water heater and a 50 gallon is the biggest that will fit in my rental. Can't install a tankless due to weather and elevation (according to mechanic). He recommends installing a three way mixing valve and c...

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I've got a property that I am rehabbing and our timeline unfortunately got pushed back into the upcoming winter months.  The property is currently vacant and does not have an HVAC system installed. We have a ...

Need some collective advice/recommendations. Appreciate any and all help!
Closed on 5 unit house with efficiency/1BR (7 occupants) last week. Currently all units are ~$50-75 below market in the zip code with water,...

For winter?

For summer?

I read that most offices set their thermostat at 72.

Around here, 72 in the summer gets expensive even in the summer.

I hear stories all the time about tenants going on vacation, turning the heat down, and coming back to burst pipes, which seems to typically end up being the landlord's problem. Is this actually as common as it seems?...

I am interested in building a 4plex located in Northwestern Ontario, Canada. We have extreme winters that maintain -30 degrees Celsius for months on end. 
My husband wants to build using electric baseboard heat, and ...

A tenant texted with a crazy story about how she heard a loud sound and went to the kitchen and the enamel in the sink had spontaneously cracked. It's a enameled cast iron sink. It seemed very odd, but I wanted to a...

My 40 gallon water heater is about 15 years old. I don't think it's ever been replaced. We have very hard water, which apparently means lots of sediment. The inspector suggested that the sediment could be/is so high i...

Hello all, So In my rental property I just bought the old owner had the cold pipe put up against the outside wall and it keeps freezing when it snows. It is insulated in the foam case and fiber glass against the wall ...