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What are you guys paying for rent that it's worthwhile to spend $500-1000 on a used tank? I could keep mine 50 years and not be ahead of that yet. I have 2 different companies and one is $10/yr while the other is $11/yr. One place had an owned tank when I bought it and the only place I could get to fill it was considerably higher than the place I ended up renting the tank from. Like 50% more per gallon. Was a no brainer for me
Quote from: wreckit87 on January 20, 2018, 09:07:56 PMWhat are you guys paying for rent that it's worthwhile to spend $500-1000 on a used tank? I could keep mine 50 years and not be ahead of that yet. I have 2 different companies and one is $10/yr while the other is $11/yr. One place had an owned tank when I bought it and the only place I could get to fill it was considerably higher than the place I ended up renting the tank from. Like 50% more per gallon. Was a no brainer for meIts generally not the tank rent where you save the money. Its buying the fuel at a cheaper price where it will pay off. Once you lease a tank, the only one who can fill it is the company that owns the tank. And the price for a gallon of propane for a leased tank is usually substantialy higher than for one where the customer owns his own tank.
We have that problem here no one will fill a tank unless they own it. They all have some bs line about insurance and tank inspections and whatever else they can come up with. We are only using propane for cooking and they were wacking us $80/yr. for the tank rental plus about $6/gal for the gas. I ended up buying 2 100# tanks and an auto-swap regulator. When one runs out the hardware store down the street will fill it for $75. Problem solved for us.