@Hypocrisy_Central You must walk down different streets than me then. I grew up in a place that has consistently ranked in the top five states for education, and aside from my Navy years, have spent the majority of my life within ~100 miles of Canada. (I’ve never lived more than 100 miles from a coast either, unless you count being in the middle of an ocean on deployment.) And honestly, I think a lot of people would welcome their landlord doing something that reduces their utility bills more than they would consider it a conspiracy.
It may be different for those who rent from a multinational housing corporation than for those of us who actually know our landlord’s name. I keep in touch with our old landlord from NH. He owns a few rental properties, but he makes only a modest living. And the apartment complex (all three buildings worth) where I live now is run by a guy who lives in a house no fancier than many of my blue-collar coworkers and drives an old Toyota pickup.
~Yeah, they are the 1%, and I will spill every last drop of my blood to minorly inconvenience them.
“But seeing the landlord is not paying the utility bill of his/her tenants why would they give a hoot to replace a hot water heater if it is still working, once it breaks, then they may replace it if it is too expensive to justify fixing the old one”
I too would balk at expenditures that weren’t strictly necessary. And if I were a landlord who did my own work instead of paying contractors (quite likely due to inability to do so), the costs would go beyond financial. Now, if you want to explain to my landlord’s daughter why she hasn’t seen her daddy in two weeks, then go right ahead but I just don’t have the heart.
It would be different if there were incentives to do so, but you know DAMN well that we would never use taxpayer dollars on something so un-American. Especially not since that’s how they do things in teh First/Industrialized world.
@gorillapaws You forgot one added benefit; you implied it but didn’t spell it out. Power demand inexorably increases over time. However, if households were more energy-efficient, we could continue to meet demands without the need for more powerplants for longer than we could with inefficient homes. I wonder how many billions that saves…