Your lease should address this in writing by stating the heat is included but up to a certain limit, and that any increase caused by tenant abuse or negligence will be passed on to them.

Stop playing victim, don’t be petty and take responsibility for yourself and therefore he baby.Honestly if I were you, I’d get on a bus to somewhere beautiful.

Four days to write up the offer is ridiculous unless the guy was hit by a bus on his way home to write up the offer.

More importantly, preventing a sexual offender from staying as a guest with a tenant.

We feel that renters might abuse the appliances and dent them badly (it does not take a lot to do that)White appliances are lower cost and don't dent very easy.I'm less worried about he cost because it is only about $400 difference. 

It is arbitrary and easily abused because it can be deceptive.  

Not sure if your area is like that as well, but that's a long time to have it sit empty hoping she doesn't find something else, get hit by a bus, overdose, etc.I would hold out for someone better.

@Richard Gaston It's not a problem if you are on food stamps, as long as you aren't abusing the system.You seem to be trying to work on getting away from that lifestyle, and I applaud you for that.Podcast run on your computer, just go to the podcast list.

One of my tenant had managed sublease the unit, although it was not allowed by contract, abuse the lease on 2 ot different issues and I could evict him basically on technicality.

We are basically forced to continue paying for water that we are NOT utilizing if we take into account:-Water bills from nearby properties with similar characteristics are way lower-The amount of persons living in the property is two-The fact that our bills are issued prior to the actual consumption, and do not take into account factors such as weather (no need for watering the yard), time away from the property (vacation), etc.On a separate note, when we attempted to register our property on the waitlist to get a meter installation (program that is now stopped due to potential lead repercussions), the system declined our property claiming that it was not eligible, although we follow all parameters indicated – a non-metered, residential account for a single family home.We believe this is a completely unfair, abusive, and unreasonable situation, which might affect other many citizens who are stuck within the same conundrum.Any suggestions?