Joshua D.
Keep heat on vacant rentals or winterize them in PA?
For the vacant properties in the dead of winter in pa should you winterize them or keep heat on? Worries me because you dont know if furnace goes out or runs out of oil or gas? Whats the best thing to do?
Nima S.
Adding Separate Meters on 2-unit (Queens-NYC)
Good Afternoon - BP Nation. I have come across a situation which I am sure that others have faced before. The property I am looking at is a legal 2-family. Classified as B3-2 (NYC) which is a conversion to two family ...
Bill Brown
Acorn Structures/ Solar Metrics solar hot water
Does anyone know how the solar hot water is Designed to work on these 80's Acorn homes ? Acorn has no information and solarmetrics is defunct. Bought a house at foreclosure , appears bank disconnected the tank from th...
Arthur Banks
Insulating water lines - pass cost on to tenant?
I currently owner occupy a 2 unit. With winter being here, I plan to insulate the water lines. The question is do I go ahead and insulate the tenants lines on "my" dime, or ask would they want their lines done and pa...
Ryan Dossey
How Weird Is This Heating System?
The guy we bought this home from was also the builder. He was fairly inventive and the home has some really cool features. This however is just strange. So the home is on county water. But he tapped into the old well ...
Aaron Mazzrillo
Converting Apartment Bldg from Oil Heat to Nat. Gas
I have a 3 unit apt bldg in MA, what is commonly referred to as a 'triple-decker' out there. It is currently heated by and oil burning furnace. After some investigation, I have discovered a program that will lend prop...
Elliot B.
Submetering Heat with BTU/Flow/Energy Meters
Hey all,It's winter time and the oil is flowing. This gives me plenty of incentive to find a way to cut some of these heating expenses. Most of the time when the topic of submetering heat is brought up the consensus i...
Matthew Paul
Tenant calls , they are out of heating oil. Will I get in trouble if I winterize ?
My tenant of 2 years calls ( fair tenant , not good not bad ) they tell me they are out of oil . And they cant afford another $ 400 for 100 gallons . He wants me to fill it and pay me back . I tell him thats not go...
Account Closed
Heating Crawl Space with Furnace
I wanted to run this through the forums to see if I can get any input. Long story short, the entire left part of my house is not accessible from the crawl space. There were some water issues from the bathtub drain a...
Adam Smith
One Furnace In Duplex
Hello BP! We are looking at a SFR that has been split into two units. It has only one water, gas and electric meter (i.e.- one furnace and one water heater). Wondering how this would work with having two separate t...