A lot of agents I know don't show these and I found out why early on, it is because it is a pain in the rear to work directly with the seller.

And there was a developer in San Jose named McQuen who built hundreds of 4 plex's that were converted to condos. they were the style were two are ground units 2 upstairs and 4 car parking underneath in the rear. they were selling for 5900.00 a door in the late 70's and there were loan products were you could buy them with 500.00 down and payments were about 250 a month.. but rent was only 200...

As this was a conversion to condo's there are actually 6 electrical meters (1 master) and 5 gas and water meters.At the rear of the property there are also 3 garages and a small storage closet.The asking price was $252k for the 1 bedroom and $149k for each studio; total asking price was $699k. 

You need to ask the city to give you a print out of your setbacks on your property, usually 15ft from the property line side to side, and 25ft front or rear.

I am busting my rear suspension to reduce my financial footprint to this level.

your instincts are correct that even if its a "flat rate" fee every month, or a "billed in the rears" system either one works well if you don't want to actually get the system sub metered.  

The abatement was for substandard conditions on the rear unit.

Obviously these are problems that can be overcome by just holding the A-B for the "seasoning period" before doing the B-C but than the increased risk and time value of money rears its head.Thanks for the good advice on this subject.

It is just too much of a pain in the rear to have to pay $5000 earnest money with hopes the bank will accept your high bid.

Or is it too grey and in the rear view mirror for an AirBnB?