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[quote=Anonymous]My friend who is a professional landlord always says you replace them all at once then they break all at once.

When he first started buying small distressed sales fixer upper starter homes and condos he would replace everything right away before tenant. It came back to bite him hard as if Washer/dryer, fridge, microwave, oven, dishwasher, HVAC and Water heater lets say all replaced brand new in 2014 in 2026 he has a time bomb of everything going all at once. He started only replacing what needed replacing and let old fridges, dishwashers etc keep going till they died. Sometimes it was 5-10 years as the old stuff sometimes outlasts the new stuff.

Running joke was my house the realtor who sold my old house three times, the 1982 inspection said furnance from 1954 was end of life and may need replacing. She sold house again in 1992 said same thing, I bought house in 2000 and said same thing.

In the end basement flooded in 2012 in a major storm and took out furnance and insurance paid for new one. It never died on its own .

My current house has a gas heater furnance from 1977.            [/quote]

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