For example, my lease says each tenant isresponsible for a fixed x% if water+gas+electricity exceeds $xxx cap.

I don't know all of your details but simply put it will look something like this:OPTION 1:-Purchase: $200,000-Rehab(including foundation work): $250,000 -Holding Costs: $50,000-ALL IN: $500,000-ARV: $XXX,XXX-PROFIT: $XXX,XXX - COMMISSIONS - $500,000 = Net ProfitOPTION 2:-Purchase: $200,000-Rebuild: $300,000-Holding Costs: $75,000-ALL IN: $575,000-ARV: $YYY,YYY-PROFIT: $YYY,YYY - COMMISSIONS - $575,000 = Net Profit

I offer $XXX per single-family home or $XX per unit for multi-family.

I'm afraid of going into a property and either:A) suddenly having a large damage bill that insurance won't help me out at all onB) wasting money ($X,XXX-$XX,XXX) renovating by replacing water, sewer, mechanical, etc. to minimize the chance of something breaking.I'm not talking about a system that has a known major issue but something that's 10 years old and will likely need to be replaced in 2-5 years.

Explain how property taxes have went up over $xxx in the last 3 years, insurance, cost of material just like the cost of groceries.

If I rented a property and a landlord told me the rent would be increasing xxx amount of dollars, then I would find a new place to rent.

The new increased rent will go into effect XXX date.

When someone says "I used XXX, and it worked great for me" - it's really meaningless to you , unless your financial circumstances and goals are exactly the same as that of the other person.

He wrote, “we are not using Xxx title co.”

Not too many brokers will give you the time of day if you just say "yeah I've got XXX dollars and I'd like to invest in Commercial".