Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Rental of rooms or Air BnBs?

[Dick Margulis (dick]

On 1/27/2019 10:26 AM, Philip Dowds via Cohousing-L wrote:
> Sprinklers, if you can afford them, are safety systems highly effective in protecting both life and 
> property.  Fully sprinklered buildings often get significant breaks on their property insurance, so 
> it’s possible that a sprinkler system might “pay for itself” after a number of years.  
> It’s worth checking out.

We are including sprinklers in all of our residential units. Residential 
sprinklers run off the domestic water supply and are quite inexpensive 
when included in new construction. And you're right. They will pay for 
themselves in reduced insurance costs.

Because the common house was ruled a commercial building by our local 
officials, however, the sprinkler system there would have been 
prohibitive. We'll have a fire suppression system over the stove, and 
we'll have smoke alarms and fire extinguishers, of course. But the 
building won't be sprinklered. That said, the reason has to do with our 
particular situation. Every group has to do the due diligence to answer 
the question for themselves.

Dick