You just have more crime there than other residential neighborhoods because you've got all the bars (alcohol, drunken fights) and a larger percentage of the homeless population which represents a decent portion of the violent crime there.See: Who is to blame for ‘aggressive behavior’ by homeless people downtown?

We still offer our student tenants the convenience of having a single payee for rent and utilities, but use a separate utilities agreement whereby the tenants prepay an amount into a Utilities Budget each month and are given copies of all utility bills so they can monitor their consumption.  

With the hair salon and the large family, it seems only fair that they would pay a larger percentage of the water bill based on assumed consumption versus the single person living in the efficiency... ie, have the salon pay 25% of the bill, 3BR 20%, other commercial 25%, and each efficiency 10%?

If the panel has the breakers labeled, you might be able to turn it off and curb the power consumption right away.

A home for your own personal consumption isn't an investment, but if you had the opportunity to build equity that you or your heirs could tap into down the road, wouldn't you want to?

@Karen Margrave crushing college debt, delayed adult decision making, chronic alcohol abuse, pushed political agendas.

The mindless consumption of formal education, will keep you on target with the masses.

Consumption rate is about 5,000 acres/year.

Funds used in those purchases will eventually run dry, completion and supply will exceed consumption and the market will correct.  

Some were excellent for the first couple of jobs but then later turned out to be alcoholic?