While this isn’t ideal from a transparency perspective, it’s a foreseeable outcome when the regulation doesn’t directly impact flipping economics.The Bottom Line: While AB 968 may promote transparency in theory, its real impact will likely create more complexity and hurdles for sellers of distressed properties and newer market participants rather than significantly altering the business strategies of established flippers.

It would take you approximately 11 years (not factoring in rent appreciation) plus that doesn't factor all the systems you mentioned that need replacement.

It doesn’t come to you and you don’t pay it to the platform.

Unfortunately, it doesn't look like that county provides that information for free online, BUT they do upload it to a private company that will sell you access to it online for a fee:https://www.courthouseonline.com/

We do our best to track actual traffic from differenet websites and there's really a Big 5:ZillowTruliaHotpadsApartmentsZumperCraigslist does its best to avoid working with syndications and was surpassed by Zillow years ago - so, no longer worth the effort of manually adding.Facebook Marketplace doesn't like property managers and will ban you if you post too many properties.

We are obviously planning to have an attorney draft our next lease so make sure it checks all the boxes but their lease doesn't end till May 2025.

Based on your post this doesn't sound like the case....

With a utility provided by the government, it makes sense to keep the bill in your name because usually if it doesn't get paid it eventually becomes a lien on the house. 

Why seller doesn't do it?

NYC doesn't really have an MLS.