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. 

If it’s a completely separate unit in a multifamily, typically tenants are responsible for utilities to streamline your costs as much as possible.

This allowed us to utilize the low down payment, ability to remove PMI after renovations/gaining equity, and not paying the upfront FHA premium.

I have looked into investing in Maine and the biggest challenge I found was many properties did not have tenants paying for utilities.

From what I can tell the fees per booking are high and they don't really cover much other than those extras if I don't like the actual combined utility of the calendar maintenance of airbnb and vrbo.  

Who pays what utility? 

I have not set up internet or any other utilities, as there have been no tenants living in the property since I closed in late February.