John Arendsen
April Is Earthquake Preparedness Month In California. You Ready?
April Is Earthquake PreparednessMonth In California. Are You Ready?April Is the official month dedicated to "EARTHQUAKE PREPAREDNESS" There are things you and I can and should do to help ourselves, our families and ou...
Kip Cline
Multiple Thermostat Sensors?
I bought a 4 unit apartment building. 2 units upstairs and 2 down. There is one furnace that heats the whole thing thy the landlord pays for. The thermostat is currently in the basement where the tenants can't mess wi...
Ryan Schuler
HVAC system decision
A friend of mine is Trying to decide on a new heating unit. He said that he was quoted $10,000 for a Lennox unit with all new install, or $7000 for a York system with the same equipment that is there (which the sales ...
Patrick Yungck
Focusing on Universal Design Building
My family use to own a multiple location medical DME company that we sold to a large hospital system awhile back and have been real estate investors since. Currently we are looking at the large number of baby boomers ...
Chris Murdien
Would installing solar panels on rentals be a wise investment?
Question to the apartment owners, management companies, single family portfolio investors and the like.Would installing solar panels on your income producing assets make sense if there was no upfront installation cost...
Samantha Klein
Purchasing a furnace at a big box store?
Generally when you hire an HVAC contractor to replace a furnace, you purchase the unit from them and they install it however does anybody here buy their furnace at a place like Home Depot instead to save money and the...
Michael S.
Multi-Family -- Security, Doors, Access
I own a 10 unit building which has 3 separate entrances/common areas with have mailboxes, stairwell, etc. Two entrances have 4 units each and the 3rd entrance is for the 2 smaller apartments. It's also on a somewhat...
Matthew Dodrill
Pinhole in A-Coil in home HVAC just 1 year old
I have an issue with an A-coil it took a little over a year for the Freon to empty out. it was determined that their is a pinhole. I have had 2 HVAC companies come and look, both want to replace the A-coil. The whol...
Ed S.
Air conditioner dilemma
I am considering replacing a split system air conditioner/furnace in a 1000 sq. ft. 3/1 rental home with a new 2 ton AC unit and a 70k BTU gas furnace. The AC was not cooling when I bought the place. I plan to own thi...
Ken Rishel
Fair Housing Compliance - What are You Doing?
Apparently someone felt my post the other day was too political and it was removed. That does not change the fact that both retailers and community owners seriously need to address the changes in all of the Fair Housi...