California real estate investors enjoy: - Sustained demand - if you have all the money in the world, California is a great place to live. - Sustained limitations on supply - all those "tenant friendly" laws that landlords on BiggerPockets love to hate on actually work wonders for the landlords, at tenant's expense, over the long-term. 

.- Good luck getting them to pay their portion for the duration of their lease- Be careful including utilities in the rent as they then won't care about a running toilet resulting in a $500 water bill.- S8 tenants don['t want to pay application fees- S8 tenants cry broke about paying security deposits- S8 tenants in the program for 10+ years claim ignoreance on filling out their paperwork because they've learned a desperate landlord will do it for them.If you want a S8 tenant, you MUST advertise on www.AffordableHousing.com

Separately metered with tenants paying all utilities.

I think you would have to join the course to know the other ways this Gator method could be utilized as he doesn't reveal everything in his YouTube videos.  

Are utilities paid by individual unit tenants?

Quote from @Michael Galace: I'm utilizing their service, been with this agency for 5 months now. 

If that's the case, you would charge rent + utilities + water or just lump it into one rent fee.One thing to keep in mind is that friends often bail on deals like this once you get it so you have to be prepared to have to figure it out if you get the house and he isn't interested.

For expenses like utilities, property tax, and insurance, I estimate a 3% yearly increase.However, keep in mind that if you do renovations in the first year, it’s likely you won’t need the full 5% repair allocation for the first or even second year.

Credit scores are made up of many factors, one is the utilization of an account vs its credit limit.

Does anyone utilize a line of credit as an emergency fund?