Stoves, refrigerators, microwaves, washers, and dryers. Should you include all of these appliances and your rental properties as a landlord?

And if yes, where should you buy them and what brands are best?

As a landlord of over 20 years, that topic and more is what I'll cover in this video. Let's get started.

Welcome to the podcast Real Estate Investing with Coach Carson.

I'm your host, Chad Carson.

You can also call me Coach Carson.

And this is a show to help you get out of the financial grind so you can spend your time doing more of what matters.

To help me talk appliances, I ask Casey Francini from the channel Brick by Brick Wealth to join me. Casey's a mom of three and a successful self-managing rental investor with nine properties.

She also knows a lot about appliances for rental properties.

So Casey, I really wanted to talk to you about this topic of appliances and rentals

because you self-managed your rentals for so many years.

And it would be fun to just chat about it to get into the weeds.

I love getting into the details of this.

And so the reason I thought appliances were so important, and I know you've found this with your own rentals too, is that,

number one, we've got to keep our tenants happy that if we have things that are working and that are useful and they can, they're practical, then they're going to stay longer, which we all want as landlords.

But then there's this other side of things that appliances, when I've looked at my bookkeeping,

like the biggest, not the biggest expense. I think my mortgages are probably my biggest expense,

but like pretty high on the list is like appliance expenses and repairs and spending

thousands of dollars to replace

appliances or hundreds of dollars to repair them. So this is a big deal that if we can do this

better and if I can get better at this, then we can improve our business as a rental investor.

So are you up for going down the list of all these appliances and just talking about

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