Gas the car up and put on your comfortable walking shoes pal! 

I chose the secure path years ago concentrating on my career in the Oil & Gas business while raising my children with intentions on picking it up again later in my career.

I was recently laid off from a marketing communications job that I did for 25 years in oil & gas and now I'm trying real estate investing full-time in the Houston and surrounding areas.I am anxious to get started and look forward to meeting and learning from other real estate professionals like yourselves.

The type of heating fuel (oil, gas, etc) will also have an impact on the rentability of the property.Also make sure you are covered from a snow/ice slip and fall standpoint.

But gas compnay said it will be 4-6 weeks before they can send a technician out to service the house because the house has been vacant.

Like, you may be required to have separate meters for electric/gas/water, or a fire alarm, or a certain amount of parking available, or whatever. 

They seem to purchase them in bulk on a bid bases from vendors and they remove the old ones, you can buy for $50 each, refrigerators, gas stoves, electric stoves.

Daniel,have to know how the numbers break up, as Kevin was saying, did you include management, electric, gas, lawn care, leasing fees, water and sewer. if you do not hire a property manager are you taking care of managing the property yourself ?

@Matthew GrundyThe project didn't work out due to the land having some environmental issues (minor) from gas station next to us.

Is it on master meter gas or electric?