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The Landlord's Guide to Fast Appliance Turnarounds Near CSUN

Every August, my phone does the same thing. Starting around the first week, it fills up with property managers and small landlords along the Reseda Boulevard corridor, all saying some version of the same sentence: “New tenants move in Saturday and the fridge isn’t cooling.”

I’ve been fixing appliances in the Valley since 2008, and a big slice of my Northridge work is student rentals. The blocks between Nordhoff and Plummer, the fourplexes off Zelzah, the older eight-unit buildings on Darby and Lindley — if you own one of those, your appliances live a harder life than almost any others I see. This post is the advice I give landlords who ask, written down so I can stop repeating myself in driveways.