All Forum Posts by: Marissa Carroll

Hello everyone! I'm Marissa and I'm from the Kansas City area. I'm interested in house hacking a duplex to four-plex, and am a total beginner. My plan is to buy a few of these and hopefully an apartment building down the road. My "why" is to travel the world and spend more time with friends and family. I will be buying sometime this year before October. (Lease is up/ 30th birthday!) That's a good enough reason I think. :)

I'm a commercial architect by trade, specializing in school architecture. I'm not familiar with residential construction (that's my caveat), but I will try to be of service if anyone needs some advice.

So that's basically the sitch! i can't wait to meet all of you on this awesome forum!

I've wondered at this question myself. I've rented from a few large apartment complexes in which there was one meter on the building and they billed each renter an equal portion of the total each month. Is it not possible to write that in your tenant contract instead of paying to add meters? I've seen this in many places for water/sewer/trash, but only one for electricity.