His rent pays our property taxes, our water and sewer bills and will be paying to replace the windows in three of his rooms come springtime.

Quote from @Bill B.: Why didn’t you mention the government can tell tenants they don’t have to pay rent for two or three years?

Utility bills can also be surprisingly below expectations. 

However after watching many folks on YouTube and following their advice I have since my first month been able to pay all the bills with bookings.

If you enjoy living there, while people are helping with the bills, then it could be a good move.I'm not saying go for it, I'm saying that there are other ways to look at it.

I thought about offering a credit towards the utilities and having the tenant cover whatever the remaining monthly utility bill would be as an incentive to hopefully rent this property faster, any thoughts or recommendations on this?

Where is your driver's license, where are your bills sent to, where does your employer pay you your income, etc. 

You can put money into no risk 4 week treasury bills right now for over 5% ( technically about 4 when you consider taxes ).

Originally posted by Bill Gulley: Originally posted by @Colin L.: Originally posted by Bill Gulley: By definition a single family dwelling is any attached residential unit containing one to four units.

I’ve got one property where my bill was about $3500 for the season.