Comment Re: Strange terms? (Score 1) 305
Go and get concrete information, for crying out loud. You can mostly look this stuff up and do some back of the hand calculations, but I'll spare you if you'll listen: to replace a typical whole home forced air heater with an air source heat pump / air handler setup is usually WELL above $5000, which might buy just the equipment. I mean, 5k dosent go far these days, and is just a little more than a qality single room mini-split setup installed by the homeowner, if they need to bring an electrician in to run another circuit but competently do everything else on their own. And that situation is a rarity. Factor in the good chance that an older home will need to have its whole service upgraded to put a whole home heat pump in, by the time you buy your permits and inspections and pay your trades you might well be into it for 20k+ for a modest house. Source? BTDT.
Regarding apartments: do you think an A/C fairy just up and descends from the heavens and bestows comfortable living conditions to the poor unwashed masses because you pile a few bodies under the same roof? Who do you think pays for that shit? The tenants pay for it one way or the next, pal. That's who. I suspect, like so many others, you also think the government just covers the tab for all of the entitlements your kind votes in, while simultaneously wondering WTF happened to make their property taxes so goddamned high.