Choosing to pay utilities seems antithetical to most advice I've heard, but hear me out.My husband and I just bought our first investment property. I am a nurse, he is a surgical resident. As the one with more free ti...

HiWe have a 8-unit building and it uses centralized gas heating, in winter season, we're paying around $800 each month in gas cost, in non-winter season it's about $300 in gas. We want to replace our current gas heati...

I have a duplex I purchased in a bank foreclosure last November. It's a solid building with good bones except one thing - no furnaces and it has base board heating. Property is in a college town in Michigan, so the re...

We had problems with he septic tank at our rental house. It took 2.5 weeks to fully repair. We found a problem, fixed it, happened again, fixed another problem, happened again, 3rd time is a charm and it appears to ...

Hey!I have a 5-Unit building up here in Canada. It goes to about -25C (-13F). I have the opportunity this spring to make a property-wide upgrade. Would you say would be the three must do renovations that help reduce m...

I have a 6 unit multi-family that has the heat separate (tenants pay heat). The 6 boilers are 25 years old and the 6 hot water heaters range in age (5 to 20 years). NJ is offering some financial incentives to updat...

Heating bills have been rising a lot,  I would like to bill tenants for heat going forward.
Has anybody billed tenants for heat when using a central boiler run on natural gas that heats all apartments ?Let's say 12 a...

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I have a 4plex in southern NH. Bought it 6 months ago. I pay for heat in two of the units ($375/mo on average through winter, oil heat) I want it out of my name. A new oil b...

I have a 4 Unit in a suburb just outside of Albany, NY which has one gas/electric meter. We also pay for water/sewer so we hit the trifecta (maybe that's actually a pick 4)! I am now pricing out a utility split but th...

I am getting ready to build a house for myself which will have quite a bit of glass in it, some of it floor to ceiling.  I would like to get something that will insulate well in the Texas heat but still have a nice de...