If you know of someone who might be interested in joining forces, I would be grateful for the introduction.

Run it just like your other units - do not force turnover, keep increasing rents, renovate as needed during turnovers. 

Now it closer to $500 plus they steal a large fee from my guests and force me to use their 3% fees to get my money.

Victor,Many Mortgage companies have a clause that lets them place the coverage (called Forced Place in the industry) if you do not show proof of coverage. 

So, it does appear that the utility PGE is trying to force something not required by legislation.

Using the bidding system it forces competition which is the essence of a free market and keeps pricing down. 

If you had no gap in coverage, the lender cannot make you pay for any gap coverage or force placed coverage.

Dividends give you cash flow but usually very little.With Real Estate, you make money 4 ways:- Appreciation (forced vs natural).

Albuquerque is home to Sandia National Labs, Kirtland Air Force Base, the University of NM, Presbyterian Health Care, Abq Public Schools, Amazon, Netflix, Intel, HP, T-Mobile, several large call centers, among many others.

As soon as anything is done in the house that involves electrical,  it all becomes no bueno, and any good inspector will force the owner/contractor to upgrade completely.