He/his sister have taken over power of attorney for the mother since her mental health has degraded over time to the point where she cannot make conscious decisions on her own.  

My property manager argues that I should pay for water because:    -  If water bills are unpaid, the City of Grand Rapids can put a lien on your home even if the bill is in your tenant's name    -  The cost of water paid by the landlord is offset by higher base rentsMy thought process is that the cost should be passed to the tenants because:    -  With the tenant paying the bill, they will be most usage conscious and overall cost will decrease    -  I am skeptical that having the landlord pay for water results in a dollar for dollar increase in base rents    -  I have always had the philosophy that as many utilities should be passed to the tenant as possibleMy plan is to push my property manager to change leases moving forward so that tenants pay for water, but I wanted to get the BiggerPockets community's thoughts in case I am missing something here?  

I know that I could broker notes that our bank would not be interested in, but I could not in good conscious try to facilitate a deal during my business hours, so getting around that will be difficult.

I am relocating to the KC area with hopes to rapidly ramp up my RE investing in the next 18 months so I am trying to be conscious of timing. 

I am not going to pretend I am perfect but I do have a conscious I am always quick to respond to my teams mistakes and to make right what we have done wrong.

I rented one of the house to a 2 people, they are not family member but just friends. they signed the lease agreement together which if one person decided to quit or not paying rent for whatever reason, the other party will also be responsible for the whole amount of rentRecently, one of the tenant got into a terrible car accident and will be at the hospital for at least 3+ months and currently not conscious. his family just contact me try to see if he can quit the lease.

If you are cash-flow conscious it's usually a solid play even with the higher rate.

He is also going to be budget conscious.  

I got my start by buying my personal residence and when we wanted to move made a conscious decision to keep it.  

We are strongly encouraging her to find work, sooner the better, and we are conscious that providing housing for the short term is not a long term solution for any of us.