Air Conditioners Break Faster in Work-at-Home Era, Landlord Says
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Landlords have been worried about the extra wear-and-tear on their properties as more people hunker down at home during the pandemic. One of the areas this is showing up: Air conditioning.
American Homes 4 Rent, which owns roughly 53,000 homes that it rents out across the U.S., said it spent an extra $1.3 million replacing tenants’ heating-and-cooling systems in the second quarter “due to abnormally high HVAC usage during stay-at-home orders.”