There’s lots of trial and error involved and your first rental property will likely not be your best.

If I’m questioning this wrong forgive my rookie mindset and thanks so much in advance.

Tenants save money when using a shared meter, so there's plenty of room for error when calculating how to distribute the charges.

Rookie investor here; what set data points do you try to find when you're researching a submarket?

I find it confusing how a field inspector would not recognize that fundamental fact, as no department would issue permits if zoning 1st required a variance approval prior to permitting. 2nd, if you have field inspection card and signatures of field inspection approvals, it may be simply a clerical data entry error on the municipality.

Should I be rethinking my method of tracking, or is this the right approach and maybe I just have some error entries somewhere?

Tenants save money when using a shared meter, so there's plenty of room for error when calculating how to distribute the charges.

The second book didn't have much, and there was one glaring error that's already been talked about too much --- sorry, forgot what it was now.Good luck.

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There are many projects that fail due to the investors errors in running numbers and newbie status.