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"HeyBub" wrote:


3. If sprinklers were worth it, insurance companies would be offering
discounts to homeowners. Obviously, the insurance people couldn't offer a
big enough discount to amortize the cost of sprinklers.


They do. At least in IN you get 20% off your homeowners insurance.
The same as for having an alarm. I would amortize it within 10 years,
using your $1500 scenario.

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