We own several SFH rentals in a sunny resort area about 7 hours from our primary home. We went down over New Year's to bring holiday goodies to our tenants, check on the houses and shop for another property in the same development. We buy them, fix 'em up and keep them. DH and I do most of the work ourselves. One of the houses has a guest house that we don't rent out, so it's our home away from home. After a pretty good trip (we didn't find a house to buy yet, but did see a couple to watch), we headed for home. Two hours into the journey, the tenant in the guest house house (i.e. the one we'd spent the most time at and had just freakin' left) called to say that the the garage door wouldn't open. She called a neighbor and he said he thought the springs had broken. Aw, snap! DH could have fixed it pretty reasonably, but turning around was not an option, so we called a garage door company that our realtor recommended. They came out the next day and replaced all the springs on the double door for a total cost of $265.00. We figure parts might have been about $150, so not a terrible deal, I guess, just weird timing. Funny, I never thought it would be material for a forum thread.