Another thing is that in my single family homes, my tenants pay all utilities, and handle lawn care/snow removal.

Lawns are crazy high, trash everywhere, houses painted crazy colors. 

A tenant mows the lawn, I plan on self-managing.     

Also, I'd get an estimate on insurance, and see if there is a premium in your market for providing lawn/landscaping service.  

If not, it is not a trivial expense, think 5k+)Trash $- Heat/Utilities $210.00 (This is actually your lawn number.  

I will be actually heading over to Lincolnton today to pick up my lawn mower from a shop over that way so I would be happy to drive by the house and see if it doesn't have any other undesirable qualities that we can not see.

Operations is lawn mowing and shoveling. 

Thanks Elizabeth,Sounds like you have figured out very well what you would like to do and I appreciate the suggestion to be specific about my interests.My internship allows me several months in the area, but I am ultimately looking for opportunities that would allow for an almost completely automated business in the long run, but it seems that there are many means to that end.I am currently fascinated by empty lot flipping, adding value to multifamily houses based on artificial appreciation as a means of making chunks of change to reinvest.

But that doesn't include all your other fixed costs -- closing costs, inspections, taxes, insurance, utilities, lawn care, staging, marketing, commissions, concessions, home warranties, etc.  

With the water crunch, renters may not water the lawn/bushes then they all die.