You’re right, this weekend looks positively frigid in Denver!
In places like Colorado, where buildings are made to withstand the cold, there usually isn’t a huge risk of interior pipes freezing – but if that’s an issue at your rental, hopefully you already know it! Older buildings, or anywhere that you’ve had a lot of renovations or not properly winterized, can lead to problems.
Always a good idea to alert your tenants with a quick message (text, email, TurboTenant message – take your pick!) and let them know things will be really cold this weekend. I advise them to be on the lookout for ice, and to let me know if water stops flowing out of the taps or they have any HVAC issues. I also keep a few space heaters on hand, and maintain a good relationship with my HVAC guy, if anyone does have furnace troubles.
The biggest issue can be if you didn’t blow out your sprinklers, or if you didn’t do a good enough job of getting all the water out. In that case, these 0-degree temps can burst a pipe and you may not even know about it until you try to flip those sprinklers back on in the spring (which might have happened to me a few years ago).
I assume my tenants watch the news and are well aware of the weather so I don’t do anything as far as notifications of different weather.
