If the tenants pay their own and they find out they have unknowingly been paying for common area electricity, you will probably have a huge headache and end up writing some unpleasant checks.It's fine to charge them for a share of common area electricity, and in fact it's common practice, providing it's written into the lease.

That's what strong marketing does: attract quality prospects and repeal the unwanted callers.I use a call center for my callers.

I would think to myself, "I am buying their UNWANTED property, and I am buying it at a FAIR price." or,"It's not that I am truly buying at 60%-70% on the dollar, because there is no way retail buyers will pay the ARV price for a property in this condition!

Does anyone have any advice or an efficient way to find/purchase vacant homes, fire damaged homes or other unwanted properties with too much work/damage?

I also suggest a drive-by so they are not unpleasantly surprised by the neighborhood when they to the showing, and just keep on driving by anonymously as I wait outside.

At least the unpleasantness of having a sewer backup might stop them from repeating. 

There are ways to prevent unwanted inquires and delete existing ones - especially if you didn't give the permission to pull your credit 20 times!

Any Tordan product like Grazon or anything similiar wont hurt the grass unless your grossly too strong BUT will be death on wheels to those pesky weeds called trees of unwanted variety.

Other people use the FGDE to spray on plants to eliminate unwanted critters.

It used to be a huge, unwanted field.