Hello everyone,

I heard this idea recently, so I thought I'd pass it along:

If you have the older 3 gallon tank toilets in your rentals and You pay the water bill, consider replacing them with a newer, 1.6 gallon toilet.  This relatively small amount of expense will save lots of gallons of water, thus reducing your water bills, while helping to conserve water- GO GREEN!

Another even less expensive way- fill up a couple of 12 ounce pop bottles with rocks or marbles, cap it and place them inside the tank, thus making the water usage smaller inside the tank.  Be careful on this one... you may not have enough water to flush down everything that needs to be flushed, so don't over-do it.

By the way, there are different sizes of traps inside of a newer toilet, so be sure to get the largest (something like 2 inches or more) to avoid plugs from your tenants, thus reducing your plumbing calls for stoppages.

Hope this helps,

Jeff Lund

Five Star Real Estate

Investment Property Specialist

jefflund@grar.com