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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

I don't know. It might be that it was usual at that time to rent those things than to buy them. My parents also had a rented water heater when they owned a home, which is why I didn't even think twice about it.

I don't know how expensive those boilers were in the 80s.