Likely uses would be a day care, fitness center, church, and if it's a smaller building, then retail. 

It appears the bank simply winterized the house, but later the water company shut off from the outside due to an outstanding balance of 154.

It also has several opportunities to house hack the estate which include a mobile that I am renting ($1000mo), walk-out basement that needs updated but can be rented, and a building that looks like they were trying to make a duplex but the county shut them down for not getting the proper authorizations.CURRENT NEED: GUIDANCE, MENTORSHIP, and maybe a little more GUIDANCE.

It is pretty routine in this area to arrange for utilities to transfer to the owner when they are shut off by the tenant, especially in the winter.

Some things to look out for are the fees. environmental fees, excessive weight fees, another trick of the industry is billing cycles. some will bill monthly so you are billed 12 times a year others may bill every 4 weeks so you get billed 13 times a year (52 weeks/4= 13 bill)based on my experience the big guys tend to play ball and kill on volume to shut out little guys. also these little guys rely on the big guys station to dump, so they charge a base fee and mark it up or put add on to make money.

@Prakash Bhatta  The two most common ways people steal electricity are:  1) by tampering with the electrical panel and bypassing the meter  2) or by fraudulently establishing service in someone else's name (i.e. identity theft) and then not paying the bill and just running it up until the service is shut off due to non-payment. 

I know many people that rent out units short term and they were eventually shut down by the city due to violation of city and state laws.

I am going to put an offer on a bank owned REO, but the issue is that all the utilities, i.e. heat, water and electricity have been shut off.

Find another SFR that can cash flow and continue to rinse & repeat.Another part says, get some more info from local investors about their experiences with leasing cabins... how do they get leads, what their returns look like.. etc.Lastly, a good part of me says shut up Abel!

I was shamelessly showing a “second date” my rehab project (church hill in Richmond Va) when the floor suddenly collapsed beneath me.