I posted about the water main break supplying the water treatment plant in Fort Lauderdale, resulting in city wide water outage.

Now I am wondering, the water outage means loss of water pressure right?

Should I be running to each rental now to turn off the water heater breakers? My concern is loss of water pressure everywhere will cause the water level in the water heaters to go lower, and possibly below the level of the upper heater element?

or am I OCDing again?



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You absolutely are. If there is ANY pressure, the heater will not lose any water.

Sum just curious, how many units/properties are you dealing with? And are they all in FLL or are you spread out around Florida?

Palm329, I have a very small portfolio. All in south Florida. I have 8 rental properties, a combination of single family homes, condos, and multi-unit apartment buildings. Only six of these are occupied. Two properties are being renovated, slowly, very slowly, extremely slowly, since I am doing this part time, and I am doing almost 100% of the property management, maintenance and renovation work. I don't think I can grow my portfolio unless I sub out some or all of the work.

I wouldn't worry about the water heaters per se, but a while back you posted a thread about doing some in-ground sprinkler manifold repair and having to re-do some work to add a backflow preventer. For any properties that have sprinklers and don't have backflow preventers, I would be sure outside plumbing is isolated from potable water.

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Not a plumber by trade but a fierce DIYer

The only PROPER way to do that would be to have a well for the irrigation.