u/Interesting_Week_917

Looking for advice.

I manage a three-family triple-decker that my parents own. My sisters and I live in the three units. It's all family, no outside tenants. My parents bought the place about a year ago for the family.

We just had an HVAC tech come out because the 1st floor system failed, and he found the following:

• The evaporator drain pan melted because the system was running so hot
• That sent water down into the furnace and shorted out the electrical components
• The return ductwork is severely undersized on all three units (which is why things overheated in the first place)
• The high-limit safety switch was intentionally bypassed.

Besides a law suit against the sellers for misrepresentation, etc., my plan is to have all three HVAC systems entirely removed (furnaces, AC, ductwork) and replace with three independent heat pumps, one per floor, for both heating and cooling. Keeping gas for stoves and water heaters but removing it from the HVAC side completely. Probably going fully ductless (possibly limiting it to 3–4 heads per floor) since the existing ducts are getting torn out anyway.

We also have two 48A EV chargers so I know we need an electrical service upgrade.

My question are three-fold:

(1) Anyone who has done such a massive overhaul, what did you wish you had known going in?

(2) Anyone gone fully ductless on multiple floors? Regrets?

(3) Am I missing anything obvious in my plan?

Just trying to do right by my family and not get screwed twice.

NOTE: The installation of the current HVAC system was done by our predecessors in title -- not us.

Their home has five TVs. All five TVs are used at different times throughout their days but never overlapping more than 2 TVs on at one time. The ONLY things they watch are those channels mentioned in the title. However, they do stream shows on HBO Max, Netflix, Hulu, etc. I have two questions

(1) Given their use case, is YouTube TV a sound alternative?

and

(2) Given their age (70s), is transitioning to the streaming platforms easy within YouTube TV or must they exit and go to another app?

Thanks!!!

My wipers skid along the glass and make a horrible loud vibrato sound. Usually, I would go to a Jiffy Lube and get a cheap replacement wiper. Can I do that with a Bolt or are there certain proprietary wipers that need to be installed?

Title says all, really. I just wonder why, especially for those of us who do not own real estate, diversification under Boglehead philosophy is usually just limited to US/INTERNATIONAL/BONDS. There’s so many other sub-categories and one of the largest being real estate…

I love my 2022 EUV Bolt — It’s so enjoyable to drive, cheaper to fuel, etc. But I miss being able to blast music and jam in my car. The speakers are truly horrible. Anyone else having this experience?

I often see people excuse or somehow try rationalizing attacks against civilians in Israel and Jews abroad (like we’ve seen in England this week) as a consequence of oppression and as a means by which they can “fight back” against their oppressor. As appealing as this logic may be on some level, I think it is much more of self-defeating than most who espouse it believe it to be.

If we take the underlying logic for granted that - when attacked and systematically marginalized by a group of superior strength - you may permissibly murder civilians as a form of retaliation (or at least claim that such conduct able to be rationalized), every single operation that has resulted in innocent deaths at the hands of the the Israeli government is excusable in like vain. Israel as a country was and is systematically marginalized by a vast amount of countries. It is overshadowed militarily by the combined strength of all of its enemies and quasi-enemies ten-fold.

My point is this: If people truly believe that it is permissible to conduct strikes against innocent targets where you’re systematically the underdog, the only way to hold such a belief is to extend it to the one you believe should be attacked in such a way. This fundamentally demonstrates the flaw in such logic. Innocent death is impermissible irrespective of the ideological backbone of the murder.

That’s my unpopular opinion.