[Kevin]

Sprinklers are a huge barrier to my chapter's housing. In our city, we're required to have sprinklers on any new or existing construction if we're housing more than three unrelated people. Sprinklers are in many cases more trouble than they're worth. We were looking at a property last Summer which had sprinklers, but one of the pipes froze and burst and there was all kinds of water damage, mold and mildew as a result.