In addition, I'm paying for Home Depot's financing programme whether I use it or not ... ie.

Or your a great programmer, tech engineer, do you want to wake up to inhale the smog, traverse a gauntlet of hobos and feces to buy the morning coffee?

., here at home there is a distinction between leasing a property with an option to purchase and a scheduled/deferred purchase programme and you want to be certain you do not inadvertently mix the two.

For the existing home: I have to install a separate heater that is thermostatically controlled from inside the apartment - I found a nifty little unit that will do the trick for under $300.

Its gotta be a dual zone system, then the FAU actually operates as 2 separate HVAC systems. 2 thermostats etc.

All that being said, I have seen situations where tenants complained about ovens not cooking properly and it turned out to be a bad thermostat.

I use Honeywell 9000 wifi thermostats that send me alerts for humidity or temperature levels I configure.None of these items have monitoring or monthly fees.

Ring doorbell, Nest Thermostat, (I forget the brand but) smart wall plugs/light switches got A LOT of attention in our latest rental and cost very little.

The A/C people came out ( I had authorized them to do the seasonal cleaning and maintenance as well at the same time).I got the bill for the regular maintenance..but on the bill was a charge for 20.00 for battery replacement in the thermostat.

The tenants we accepted continue to pay rent online through cozy.co .The tenants that we chose have been great so far, the only complaints really being the heat situation, since there is only one thermostat(I use a nest thermostat, which I can control max and min temps) bottom tenant likes it really hot, and upstairs not so much.