I most of my worst tenants were early on and I attribute this to not knowing what to do, how to handle the situation, or what to look for in both a tenant or a house. 

This means you may need to wait until the utility can determine the amount attributed to the outgoing tenant.

i attribute the dramatic increases in prices of items to this idea and utter acceptance of "credit".

I would not attribute it to your gender; I suspect a male would have gotten the same bill.For your conditions, the bill seems reasonable (except the fire alarm installations).Good luck

However when I went to the public meeting about the issue the homeowners, while understandably annoyed and upset, are already attributing all kinds of mystery illnesses to this, which I believe to be bogus.Anyway, I have already told the tenants in the one occupied rental and they are cooperative and did not freak out or get upset about this.

I love the site, but search is absolutely awful, making it just as annoying when someone scolds someone new for not having done a search first.I agree that the BP search isn't always a wonderful thing to use.That said, read my post in this thread that explains how to search and track things on the BP forums:http://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/50/topics/12495--quot-subject-to-quot-question-informing-the-lenderThat post was so good that some blogger posted it nearly verbatim on his own site (without full attribution)!

And then you have to pay taxes on the portion of your profits attributed to the loan.... as you can see it gets a little complicated.  

One fourth of the cost of a new roof is attributed to each unit, and, is added to the tax basis for each unit.

The answer is NO - in most cases.If an IRA buys investment real estate and then sells it at a profit, all income generated while it was held in the IRA and all the gains resulting from sale WILL be either tax-deferred (regular IRA) or possibly tax-free (Roth IRA), IF the purchases were all cash with IRA funds.If the IRA borrows to finance the purchases, any income and capital gain that is attributable to debt-financing will be subject to taxation.

If you own 25% then you get a K1 tax form from the corporation stating what amount of profit or loss is attributed to you.