The utility room in one of my rentals is in the center of the house without access to an exterior wall. The dryer vents to the crawl space into PVC pipe. The run is about 15 ft. with a few 90 degree turns. When th...

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 ...

Hi! We have a tenant who is doing a 1 year lease to arbitrage our property (single family home) out as a short term rental. The temperatures have been unusually low and pipes in the home froze for 5 days so far, makin...

Hi All! I am a commercial general contractor in the Southern New Jersey Region. We primarily construct commercial, medical, and industrial buildings with a strong history in pre-engineered metal buildings. My goal is ...

Here are some data points from the month of October! 🏠📈 Real Estate Update 📉🏠Here's the latest real estate market report from October 2023 (single family homes) 📊:🏡 Mortgage Rates:30-year conventional rate today is 7....

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?...

Anyone have any suggestions on helping reduce our natural gas utility bill. We use gas for hot water heaters and heating our units in our 10 plex. We are considering adding more insulation and switching tenants over f...

I am purchasing a house that was built in the early 1900's as a SFH.  It has one boiler and radiators throughout.  I want to meter the electricity separately, and, of course, the heat.I had thought of shutting off the...

Hi I am totally new to this forum, Not sure how it works. The question I have is, I recently bought a 2 family property and rented out both units. Currently I have oil heat and its will end of costing me almost 3000 t...

My 20+ y.o. Anderson windows condensate on the inside when: 1) the shades are down for the night, and 2) the temperature difference between the room and the outside is significant (68F inside and 35F or below outside)...