If your hot water tank is nearing the end of its life span, give serious consideration to having a tank less hot water heater installed. The upside is the long range energy usage. The downside is that it takes a smidgen longer for hot water to arrive at your tap. New home builders install these as a builder's feature.
Why get dunked by the competition?
A few years ago clients of mine wanted to find homes with tank less water heaters. I think I tried to find information in the web (just so I would recognized on if I saw it) but came up empty. Less than three years later, a Buyer of mine bought a new build with a tank less heater. Finally all my studying paid off when I described how it worked and how lucky she was to have this unit. I commented on a blog by Charles Buell http://activerain.com/blogs/cbuell about insufficient hot water and wondered if this type of heater solved the problem. Charles thought it might but that the expense would far outweigh the benefits of continuous water. If a Seller is considering one, there is a niche market of Buyers who will drool over this unit and others would will just be happy that they did not have to pay for it directly themselves. With recent reports of substantial energy cost increases in Ontario, the market for energy efficient heaters may be increasing.
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I have a rental home that I REALLY want to put a tankless system in because it will free up one side of a closet in the 3rd bedroom....just waiting for the current tank to "die" to have the system changed.