2+BR Apt Available Sept. 1. $1500+. Let ME be your Landlord!

[wobblymusic.livejournal.com]

Deets below the cut.

• Lower unit of owner-occupied Philadelphia style two family home available September first.


• Living Room, Kitchen (with large walk-in Pantry), Bathroom, Bedroom, Dining Room (could be used as Bedroom) all on first floor. Stairwell inside unit leads to additional second floor Bedroom. Six rooms total (including bath).


• Laundry and additional storage in basement.


• Porch in front. Patio & small landscaped yard in back.


• Lots of original 1920s detail. Wood floors. Clawfoot tub. Moulding around doors, etc. is mostly varnished, not painted.


• Quiet street. Less than 10 minutes walk to Porter and Davis squares.


• Plentiful resident-only on-street parking. Tandem parking in driveway available for small additional fee (tenant's car always in front).


• Utilities -- Gas stove and hot water. Oil heat (new furnace installed in 2003).


• No dogs. Would prefer no pets, but will consider non-canines on a case-by-case basis.


• No more than two people living in the apartment, couples preferred. Non-smokers only.
  


• $1500/month + utilities. Driveway parking an additional $100/month.

Feel free to write back via email if you have any questions or if you'd like to schedule a viewing. I'll also try to answer any questions below.

[August 1 edit: I have found tenants! Thank you, all!]

Comments

[ifotismeni]

nobody's installing oil heat... it's just what was built-in already.

[flixchick1986.livejournal.com]

Oh ok. I thought my parents installed a new gas heater when the oil one died when I was a child, but I was like 10, so I have no idea. :-)

[ifotismeni]

hehe xD no problem. i just moved into an apartment with oil heat -- my first time ever living somewhere with oil heat and yea, wow, the bill we're going to look at this winter will be killer. but switching out an oil heater for gas is VERY expensive as well (something like $10k??) so it's almost like you're stuck with it.

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Did you actually price it? Generally speaking, switching from oil to gas does not require a new heating system -- you just replace the oil burner with a gas burner. I've seen 100+ year old snowmen that went from coal to oil to gas.

The gas company also does rebates that help cut the cost and there are potential tax deductions as well.

One of the pricier parts is getting ride of the old oil tank, which can cost up to $1000, but if there's still oil in there, that might help offset the cost. :)

[ifotismeni]

i'm not the landlord, but i seem to recall replacing the burner was quoted at something like $10k, yea. unless i'm adding a zero on there, which is possible. *shrug*

[m00n.livejournal.com]

You'd probably also need to dig up the street to install a natural gas shunt. That's bound to be expensive, although probably worth it if current trends continue...

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

True, but ime, most places with oil heat already have gas service for hot water and/or cooking, and if that's the case, it'd obviously make the process easier.

[m00n.livejournal.com]

If you're just going to re-use all of the existing plumbing/ductwork, and the natural gas infrastructure is already, then all you are really looking at is the cost of purchasing and installing the furnace itself, and that's usually somewhere in the ballpark of $1500 - $2500. Given the current difference in price between natural gas and oil, that would pay for itself in two to three years.

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

I'm going to assume you meant burner rather than furnace, but in any case, yes, tell it the other commenter. Or her landlord. :)

[wobblymusic.livejournal.com]

Thanks for this info. I'm definitely going to look into converting.

[larksdream]

Yup, I had it done a year ago; counting carting away the asbestos-covered snowman and taking away the indoor oil tank, it was between $7k and $8k. That's after the rebate from the gas company. :-/

[ifotismeni]

and that's just for one oil heater i'd imagine? my house has 2 units, so our landlord would have to pay for both heaters to be removed... geh.

[larksdream]

Yeah, just one. The rental unit is still on oil, and although I feel terrible about that, there's just no way I can afford to have it changed over to gas. I'm still paying off the installation cost for my own unit. :-/

Last year when I calculated it out after one winter on oil, the breakeven point for changing over was two years, so unless the tenant was really really sure they'd be here for at least three years (which seems a little unlikely) it's not even like it's worth their while to chip in for it themselves. Which is how you get all these rental units still using ancient oil boilers...

[larksdream]

Oh, wait, good news. I just looked it up and it was $7300 all told, but that included buying and installing a tankless gas water heater too. So it was really around $4700 for just the boiler switchover, counting removal etc.. (It would have been a few hundred less except pieces of the old plumbing kept shattering when they tried to work with them...)

[wobblymusic.livejournal.com]

Who did the work for you?