The major damage was to 35 computer stations and various other electronic equipment, as well as buildouts, furnishings, etc.

You could buy the meter, have a plumber install, you connect to computer, charge the exact amount of water usage. 

@Lolo Druff Real Estate Investing is not like Trading Stocks or Crytocurrency.Real Estate Investing requires some deep thought and research from you as an Investor.Having 400k to deploy to multiple duplexes is a great start but you have some questions to ask and answer yourself.

Since all these Companies are publicly traded, you can read their yearly 10K'S and quarterly 10q reports. which are very transparent as to how they generate their profits and what risks their seeing on the horizon.

Income from a trade or business where a taxpayer doesn’t materially participate.2.

After the first year of renting them, and if their values have risen enough, I'll "trade up" for something else with a higher cashflow (assuming I go for a higher downpayment.) 

Most landlord businesses DO qualify as a "trade or business."

I’d like to trade it for this kind of property in this place. 

Transactions are 'validated' by miners with powerful computers designed specifically for bitcoin. 

its kind of a trade off because i can get a newer property at a higher price and down payment, or get something older, less down and then use that money to fix what i need to fix.