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When temperature goes down, holiday’s, lights and decorations are on and sun goes down early, it means winter is coming. As winter comes with lots of new responsibility for landlords and also for tenants, by taking some steps you can save your rental property from damage during cold winters storm or heavy snowstorm. Stock Up With Tools: Make sure that you are equipped with shovels and ice melters or blowers which are very efficient items in the winters. During winter season you should listen or watch the weather forecast news at once in a day, so you should be aware about the weather conditions. Due to the availability of one of those items can be helpful to remove unwanted snow, so it’s better to make a check list of needed items. Building Inspections: As a landlord or a tenant, it is necessary to take an inspection of outside pipes of homes for rent or any other rental properties. During the deadly low temperature in winters old pipes may burst by losing their insulation which can cause flooding damage. And also ensure that the Boilers and furnace are in good working condition, to make sufficient warm temperature inside the rental property. After this move to the roof inspection, if there is any leakage or cracks found repair it because heavy snowfall or snow storm can put lots on weights of heavy snow and cause a serious damage to rental property or renter's. Inspect Around Your Property: Take an inspection walk around your rental property, if you have trees on your rental property make sure that trees and hydro wire are away to each other. If tree is near to hydro cables you need help and call some authorize persons to trim the tree branches which is near to cables. Because during storm or snowstorm it can be dangerous. Remember don't try trim yourself any branches near to hydro cables. Stay on Top of The Weather: After the Strom hits, clear the walkways and put salt or sand to help with fraction. If you are waiting for clearing the snow it makes the tenants life in danger which is the biggest safety issue, because of heavy snow. Use shovel and put down salt on all the entrance or anywhere may tenant go outside the rental property. If you have outside parking lot, you remove snow by hiring a company but they need some payment for their work or you may also do it yourself but it need extra efforts and time too. Stay Warm: If your renter's are leaving for some time, make sure that heating are kept on at rental property. It can be difficult task to convince them if they are paying for their own utilities. It's landlords responsibility to aware tenants about preventing pipe freeze which lead to pipe burst and can cause lots of water damage to their home rentals. As renters, you will not have to be kept as normal temperature when you are present in rental property, you just need to set on ideal temperature which can produce enough heat, pipe freeze will not take place. Interior Doors Open: Mostly pipes are located inside the cabinets. So when the temperatures drops, it is a good idea to keep cabinets doors open through which warm air can flow easily through pipes and make them stay warm and it also avoid pipe freeze and pipe burst. Add Extra Insulation: Pipes in basements or attics cannot insulate properly from cold temperature. If you have problems with pipe freezing, then you use or do extra insulation. If you install pipes with foam rubber or fiberglass. It can decrease the chance of pipe freezing. Additional insulation can be also added to walls and ceilings to keep the pipe warm. These tips should help you to keep your property and residents warm through the winter. And also remember that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Circl | all-in-one rental search, property listing and home maintenance, Tenant Rental Property, landlords and contractors.
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2/9/2019 01:53:38 am
When you are finding apartment for yourself you need to take care of many things like the distance between the apartment and your workplace facilities provided in that rent would be worth or not so consider each and every aspect.
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