Necessity may indeed be the mother of invention.
I think that is one of those basic truths in this life.
But necessity can also end up showing you a whole new perspective just when you didn’t expect it. That’s exactly what happened for my wife and during a recent HVAC crisis. This wasn’t something like the gas furnace going out in our home or anything like that. No, both my wife and I decided to retire early and pursue owning rental properties. We both really enjoy the process of taking an older home and turning it into something pretty fantastic. We’ve done this several times in our own lives while we were still working inside the commercial HVAC of corporate America. The more we talked about it, the more it made sense for us to take this opportunity to do what we wanted to do while we still could. At this point we’re up to five properties. Almost all these properties are smaller starter homes that need a lot of work. And in every case thus far, we’ve had to replace the residential HVAC. On our last home, we got a little bit cocky by getting a lease signed prior to all the renovations being done on the house. So we were on the clock with a deadline when we found out the ductwork in the home wasn’t usable. It was very necessary that we found an alternative because we had to have the HVAC equipment upgrade completed immediately. That’s when we learned about the ductless multi-split alternative. We used ductless heat pumps in that situation and we are so pleased with the results, we’re going to do all our homes this way.