Comments on: Utilities, part II http://www.iboughtaduplex.com/general-day-to-day-landlord/utilities-part-ii.php "Are you sure you can handle managing something like that?" Well, there's one sure way to find out... Sat, 28 Jan 2012 23:22:11 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Thomas http://www.iboughtaduplex.com/general-day-to-day-landlord/utilities-part-ii.php/comment-page-1#comment-188 Thomas Sat, 09 Sep 2006 01:40:22 +0000 http://www.iboughtaduplex.com/general-day-to-day-landlord/utilities-part-ii.php#comment-188 Got hit this summer with high electric bills as well, although I was able to find a few tips that helped bring down the energy/gas consumption: * If your tenants have access to their hot water heater, they could turn down/off the hot water heater until they need to use hot water. Home depot also sells a device, much like a light timer, that will switch the hot water heater on and off at certain times (search for WH40D89 on homedepot.com). * Compact Flourescent lighting can be fairly expensive up front, however home depot (not to plug them again) has a contractor pack (I think of 16) CF bulbs for about $20. Aside from those two, everything else I found seemed to be fairly standard advice. Got hit this summer with high electric bills as well, although I was able to find a few tips that helped bring down the energy/gas consumption:

* If your tenants have access to their hot water heater, they could turn down/off the hot water heater until they need to use hot water. Home depot also sells a device, much like a light timer, that will switch the hot water heater on and off at certain times (search for WH40D89 on homedepot.com).

* Compact Flourescent lighting can be fairly expensive up front, however home depot (not to plug them again) has a contractor pack (I think of 16) CF bulbs for about $20.

Aside from those two, everything else I found seemed to be fairly standard advice.

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