If you calculate your time, travel, fuel, and costs to perform these yourself and it is below what you are being charged then take care of the items yourself until you're worth more to pay someone to do them for you. 

Can you expand upon your comment about mileage being too high for lease. you can not deduct mileage on a lease, just the lease payments and actual fuel costs???

It would be different if we were warm but were cold paying out the ying yang for fuel.

My post mentioned no fuel source, and did not mention what Bill Gulley had written.You did state that my original post was incorrect - and you have not provided any evidence to support that - even in light of my evidence refuting that part of your statement.Some people can't admit they're wrong even when proven so - it's OK, the posts I have made in this thread are not incorrect despite any statements you've made that might say so.

Judging by the pictures, that looks much more like scrapping fueled by some mental health or addiction related drive rather than outright theft.

If there is a surplus, we give the tenant the choice of applying the balance towards the next month's rent or leaving it in the fund (make sense when we are carrying the heating fuel and winter is approaching) - we *only* refund the surplus to the tenant at the end of the lease {after deducting any final utility costs}.There is no problem with carrying a utility in your (or your company) name if you have the tenant pay in advance and treat it as a strait bill through.The bigger issue you may have with this instance is the vendor was using a single residential account to provide service to multiple units.

Alan Miller my advice as a newbie and what I have learned threw bp and other readings I plan to invest 100% into beach front condos in the next year pod cast 57 is a + if u havnt listened to it pls do it is fuel for your wife and yourself to buy a beach front condo.

In reality, the spouse has a part-time job and has minimal income, but enough to cover household things like fuel and groceries - I didn't include the spouse in my calculations, my instinct told me to run on the long term, stable income.

In tight spaces, use duct tape and tape a clothes pin at the end of a pole, an broom might work or a PVC pipe.

Dining Room Chair: Seat where you ingest fuel to keep going.