-Taxes-Home insurance-Mortgage Insurance -Maintenance/Repairs-Capex-Vacancy-Property Management (many include this even if you don't plan on initially offloading to PM)-Utilities Let's say all in expenses are $2,000 per month for easy math purposes. 

We want people to have confidence in the materials they want to utilize.

But you can get pretty creative with these entities to implement additional layers of protection by utilizing additional tools - and in my opinion real estate investors under-utilize trusts.

I am also trying to utilize the first-time home buyer down payment assistance program, but the site says they don't allow investment opportunities.

They put a property up on the market, put the taxes, insurance, and utilities on there, subtract an estimate for the mortgage and then say this property is a "cash cow!"

We try to find prospects that also have separate utilities such as electrical and less commonly separate water/gas.

Make sure utilities are also in the new tenant's name before you give them the keys.

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?

TLDR: how to take care of water bill which will include irrigation on a 10k sft yard Hello Everyone,  Will be closing on my  first new(build) Single family home as rental/investment property and would like to get your thoughts on how to go about Utility  Bill ( Water) . 

Utility bills can also be surprisingly below expectations.