Kyle Johnson
Add Solar to a SFH rental
Hello All,
I'm just curious. Will getting solar add any value, marketing and/or rental value to your SFH rental? Is it worth doing?
I can see it may add some marketing value but that's it. Curious if other have done...
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Landlord Responsibilities during weather-caused power outage
Hi there,
I live in a older recently renovated multi-family community and in the last monsoon storm a power surge caused all our electrical to the community to be fried. The property management did admit that some of...
Pamela Deese
Tenant Stealing Utilities
I rent a commercial storage building with no utilities included. After eviction for non -payment and breaking the lease agreement. I have found that they where stealing power and water. They had buried lines and conne...
Peter Johnson
Landlord Strategy: Become the Utility
With rapidly falling solar costs and the 30% tax credit, has anyone discussed the idea of "becoming the utility" for their tenants?Most landlords can have solar installed at no up-front cost & finance it over 25 ...
Kimberly T.
What do you do with a vacant unit in an area that might freeze?
Being from SoCal, I have had no personal experience with freezing pipes, but I'm aware that it happens. We currently own rentals in CA (OC) and AZ (Phoenix metro), so we don't have to worry about it at our rentals...
Kyle Curtin
Multifamily Landlords, solar panels?
Hi guys! I was reading a BP article a little while ago that mentioned purchasing and installing solar panels on your multi’s to be able to charge tenants for power, as well as being able to sell that power back ...
George Fleming
How to handle shared Washer/Dryer yet utilities assigned to different units
I have two units separately metered and we are installing a shared washer and dryer. Logistically, the water and power for the dryer would come from the smaller one bedroom and the washer power would come from the 2-B...
Nathan Williams
utility costs in indy
Im an out of state investor looking at a potential duplex. Everything looks great but Im curious how much will utilities typically run me since I will have to pay. Each unit is 1 bed/1 bath and about 500 sqft with e...
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Question on electrical panel
My electric just installed electrical panel. I did not find any GFCI breakers. He said that the house does not need it due to the age. I am planning to rewire the whole house. I am not sure what he is doing is right. ...
Brad Clarizio
Average Cost to Submeter
Hey all- I am looking at buying a small apartment complex with a partner, however the hanging point for both of us is that the landlord currently pays electric, water and gas for 75% of the units and water and gas for...