We provide shovels and salt for the driveway but the lease says nothing about snow removal on the driveway.

My guess is that a "shovel ready" project like this will sell for quite a premium especially if there is a housing shortage in your area.Taking on the development project on your own might have a greater upside but it also will come with significant headache and risk.

It is as easy as a shovel or hosing the grass down or both. 

Thinking about shoveling a wad of cash down the drain every month seems counter productive to a prospective investor.

But we do usually get a few big snows where I'll be shoveling out to get to work or hope my neighbor comes by with the tractor.As far as heat, I just use a woodstove and cut firewood. 

In general, prices in SW FL are through the roof.

Kind of like the people making real money during the gold rush were the ones selling shovels & pick axes.Do you discuss any of these topics?

I have a project that I have been working to be fully entitled and then sold as a shovel ready multifamily project in South Florida.

You should also call up an insurance broker and see what insurance might cost you ($120 might be a good enough assumption for now).Once you have all of that, add up the monthly mortgage, taxes, and insurance, add any utilities you may need to cover (water at a minimum is typical in NJ, but maybe also lawnmowing and snow shoveling, if you don't write those into the leases).

If it snows, the snow is not shoveled, you self manage, it is you as the manager who failed to get the snow shoveled, and if someone gets hurt, you are responsible, not the LLC.