Consider putting in a separate electrical meter, a separate water meter, and separate gas meter.

If so, do you allow gas grills or just charcoal grills? 

Gas stations on the other hand do affect value. 

Natural gas is widely used in the area and can be brought to the property for roughly 40k.  

I have a ton of family that lives and owns gas stations in CT.

So the house wound up needing the drywall, kitchen, bathroom, roof to the garage, Plumbing, Gas and other stuff done. 

For example our local gas and electric company (Baltimore Gas and Electric) has a program called the Automatic Change Name program that PMCs can enroll in.

Have you thought about investing in gas and oil with about a 9 to 10 % roi.. its a 1031 exchange alternative of like kind. 

For example with heat, the fuel (electric, oil, natural gas, etc) all cost differently. 

An entire blog could be written about the cost of manually driving for dollars… such as paying for gas, depreciation on your vehicle, the cost of your time, etc.In another example, imagine you are virtually driving for dollars in the same target neighborhood and zip code..