All Forum Posts by: Genny Li

 Ugh.  Watch out for what you ask for.  They're now making LED light bulbs built into fixtures.  It's a "forever bulb"....until it burns out and you need a whole new fixture instead of a bulb.  And LEDs don't last as long as they promise, of course.

I love the idea of condensing dryers, but I see them right now as replacing something that can last 20 years with something a lot more expensive that will probably last less than half that.  Why can't we have the bells and whistles and also reliablility?

 Home inspectors often give very bad advice.  Just in general.

 I've requested the full paper through ResearchGate, but the abstract is not as concerning as the headline makes it sound.  I do take persistent hormone-affecting plastics very seriously, but the scare paragraphs are really, really not reflected in the abstract.  I'll post if they grant access.  I've requested it as a landlord. :)

I always use Uponor, not the cheap stuff, and I have copper to the mixing valve on the one in my house, which is the only one I've had installed where the water heater is set high.  Since the two case conditions for concern appear to be soon after installation and use with excessively hot water, we will see what the actual paper says.

A big thing to watch out for in fans are funky lightbulb sizes.  They can be a big headache.  

Also, though those with a light canopy look better in living areas particularly, a more modern 3- or 4-light one is less of a pain for rentals when your tenant inevitably lets a light bulb burn out and ignores it.

You're expressing your personal feelings about something that is very regional and are adding nothing to the discussion.  I live in MD, right out of DC. My personal house has no fans.  However, since I am not an idiot, I don't choose things based on what I like for rentals but rather what the market demands.  I own in Texas.  If I ripped out the fans because I was so out of touch to think that "they look 80s," I would decrease the desirability of my Texas property. You are literally the only one expressing feefees here.

I explained that it was regional.  Look at how everyone else who replied responded.  Where are fans not good?  Vancouver and RI.  Where are they a nice thing but often not worth it? MI, PA, etc.  Where are they generally de rigeur?  TX, AZ, Southern CA, FL.

Might as well be telling someone from Texas that "AC isn't worth the money in most properties, and and it shuts you away from nature."

 The previous PO added a disposall just a year and a half ago because they got so incredibly tired of students stopping up the sink and then causing issue.  I think for college student rentals, it's probably a better idea than for most other purposes.....

 Says the person from Vancouver. *facepalm* Did I not just say it's regional????

"I can only hear them in the walls in 3 places."  That's very good to hear!  (Or not hear?)  I only reacted the way I did because you did say the sounds were following you.  I actually spent a lot of time trying to help the first person who had "mice following me" until things deteriorated and became obvious. The next couple of times, I just stayed out, and the inevitable happened.  This is the first time I've said anything. :)

The term "mental health" leads people to think about it wrongly.  In many cases, yes, it's like common heart disease--for example, you do the mental equivalent of too much eating and not enough exercise, and yeah, you're going to have bad mental health.  But it's also can be like being born with a heart defect that no one detects until a super healthy 18-year-old athlete drops dead playing basketball.  Or when you develop MS suddenly.  There's no "letting theirs go unchecked" in these cases.

As far as traps go, house mice are dumb and fall for the peanut butter.  I have some brain surgeon field mice near my house, though, and the only thing that works are glue traps where they run.  They seem to just hang out in the house because it's warm, and they go outside to eat.  They don't trust my food! lol.  I hate the glue traps because I have to kill the mice myself, since I won't leave them to die.  The easiest way is to put the trap inside a plastic bag and smack it against something hard very, very forcefully.

 The 10 year battery life ones only last about 7 years.  I know because I replaced all the batteries in my house right before my daughter was born (that's what I do when I nest loool), and before she was 8, we had to replace all but one.  The one lasted about 8.5 years.

I replaced all the battery-operated ones in the bedrooms because no one had written the date on them, and two were already nonfunctional.  A hardwire one was still bopping around the supply closet with a 2013 sticker on it, so I'll replace the hardwired ones in 2 years, because it matches the ones that are hardwired now.

No one has smoked in this unit because roommates would murder them. lol.  Every bathroom door does have dents from a chinup bar, though.

Yeah, I didn't have time to do the Video Guide To Your Apartment that I wanted to do. That'll have to wait until next summer!  I'll record videos of me doing stuff like emptying the dust canister on the vacuum and cleaning the filters (kids, remember, so I supply the vacuum!), running the laundry, etc.