This approach encourages them to be mindful of their consumption and find ways to reduce utility usage, ultimately leading to lower bills.

Crows are brilliant ~ feed them peanuts and let her go out and shoo them away, corvids take her car windshield.Grandma comes to visit and asks for favors every hour: cup of sugar, how do I open my phone, can you help me ?

Phoenix also has so much sprawl that their water consumption is relatively high per person and people insist on keeping grass lawns in a desert.  

Most of my clients just utilize my resources to find the right properties.But you're right, I'm not going to sugar coat the fact that a lot of people are losing a lot of money by not doing things the right way in this market.

However because of Covid and the rising material prices is eating up a lot of the budget that was supposed to go to our solar panels so for now we will not be using those but I think we will still be satisfied with our energy consumption

I believe the deductions on your equipment stem from the depreciation and from the consumption of fuel, repair parts, etc - in other words, these are things that lose some of their value with their use.The land is not deductible because it is classified as non-depreciable.

I won't sugar coat it entirely, the housing stock is old and a lot of the houses need work (more often than not, a LOT of work). 

the gifts arnt necessary but sugar gets you more than vinegar right? 

I ran all the 240v electric to the hot tub & it's always set to 96degF with it being adjusted higher during use, yet the electrical consumption is not noticeable.We do not use anything other than Eco-one to treat the water, but I throw in a cup of chlorine after heavy use.

They're trying to expand Highway 59 southwest of Sugar Land to accommodate more drivers in the Rosenberg/Richmond area, where more people have migrated to due to Sugar Land becoming more saturated and expensive.