I would be careful about bumping the rent to include these services; tenants can get real careless with water consumption if they are essentially getting all they want for a fixed price. 

I'm not going to try to sugar coat it:Is there upside in rent as that's one of the most important things I look for.Based on my experience, the cap ex is probably high.You won't be able to get a 40 year loan so that pushes your mortgage amount up and your cash flow down.You should be able to get lower than 5% unless you are only going into a commercial loan.Terrible cash on cash returnany property I buy needs more than $5,000 in repairs. 

In business I don't want anything sugar coated so thank you.

A few late payments here and there but I love how PoL doesn't sugar coat the updates on late payments and tells me what could happen next (see below) "...In the event this interest payment does not clear, our Asset Management team will issue a notice of default shortly thereafter.

@Matt Katsaris KC BBQ is ok if you like the sugar rush but I am from Texas so ya know.....Seriously, there is only three places they say for BBQ.

I'm sure they'd want more from me than just a "pretty please with sugar on top."

But I probably should have included in the contract that if they exceed the “average” utility consumption I oils charge then a fee.

I'm surprised how little info there is on this topic that's for the consumption of the non-techie out on the web.  

It's led me to discover home monitoring systems like Eyedro (for electricity) and Flo (for water), where apparently you can track usage and figure out the consumption for a separate unit like a mother-in-law suite.

I'm not sure the electric bill would be higher, as central heat & air is usually more energy consumptive than a window unit.