I need to replace the stove in a nice rental. Last renter ruined the glass top.

Hopefully you charged them for the glass top. Was it just the top that broke/cracked or more? You can get those replaced.

You should give them "rules" on those however. No banging pots or pans on them, nothing heavy (like cast iron pans). No sitting on them (or standing).

It did not break. They just did not clean it properly and it is not going to be as nice looking. I am more concerned about what people expect when they rent a nice house.

Do they demand or prefer glass top or is the old style burner on a nice stove just as good

I do plan on printing up a sheet for care of stove. Thanks for the suggestion

I don't think glass top stoves are suitable for rentals. But if it is just a cleaning issue, you can take a razor blade window scraper and clean that glass until it looks brand new.

Soak the top with the glass cleaner and let it soak in, then scrape. All the gunk comes off right down to the clean glass.

I find they do clean up. May take five or six times, proper cleaner and scraper. Have you done all you can to clean it, wiping is not the answer.

We just spent 75.00 for a nice GE electric range I saw locally on FB marketplace. Am breaking my rule about storing appliances already. But will put Decon in it to be sure. It has the coils; I prefer for tenants.

They left the cord on so that was a plus.

[[[[[...... Does the oven look equally as dirty?.......]]]]

I only use self-cleaning ovens in a rental. If a tenant leaves the oven dirty, then it is easy to get it clean. However, I find that if the tenants have a self-cleaning oven, they will clean it every now and again and they clean it when they leave and want their deposit back.

best to go with service grade stuff...the lumps are rarely up to keeping it as you would your own. gas or electric? who cares, it's a rental. regrettably, i find that appliances are rarely worth fixing so i keep extras around if folks offer them to me for free. it makes it easy to swap in a "new" one if the old one goes boom.

For this very reason I only use coil too stoves. If the tenant wants a smooth top they can buy their own.

Some do. Then they leave them behind. When a new tenant comes I tell them I do not supply smooth top stoves. So, I will replace it with a coil top or I can leave the smooth top one there (essentially it’s free). But if they opt for me to leave it there and it breaks any repairs or replacements are their responsibility.

Every one of them opts to keep the smooth top. When it needs to be repaired I give them my repairman’s number and they can repair or replace. Sometimes I have to remind them this is what they requested but so far it has worked out.

I have also had some ask me to remove my stove so they could replace it with a smooth top. Sometimes I will, sometimes I won’t.

The main thing I dislike about glass top stoves is there is a temp sensor for each burner....when that temp sensor goes bad, it causes the burner to overheat the glass causing it to distort, crack and/or get a white-ish color in the glass. Most glass top stoves that are cracked are caused by this flaw.