Insurance is expensive, there is a lot of extra maintenance like painting or electric in common areas that don't apply as much with smaller units. 

Subtract $350 for HOA dues, maybe another $400-$500 for electric and internet, and potentially water bills. 

Contractors performing structural, electrical, plumbing, or HVAC work are required to have the appropriate licenses issued by the City of Chicago.

In the northeast having a second heat source in the rental saved  frozen pipes when the electric was out for days.

The GC can handle the entire project, coordinate different subcontractors and make sure the project is completed per building codes - especially if the rehab is complex or involves multiple trades like plumbing, electrical, and carpentry.

Virtually everyone has used an electric range or oven in their life but lots of people have no experience at all with gas anything. 

The insurances like AAA are strict on the paint, roof, plumbing, electric etcThe houses are in Stockton, California.Thanks

Very early in the tenancy he made reference to a divorce that made money tight, when talking about an electric bill. 

Bad electrical is dangerous.  

To avoid the risk management/insurance that comes with tenants' wood fire use:I'm thinking to seal the chimney cap on roof and run a cord putting an electric Infrared heater fireplace in there, so they can still open the glass and get heat and watch TV over the mantle, but can't burn anything or have any flame.