I know the average water usage and should it spike I will address the issue.

Prices, sales and development have spiked up in the past 12 months and will likely continue as more commercial development is placed.

We never saw a "spike" or "surge" 10 years ago like the rest of the country, which helped the market stay stable. 

The rent is capped at 400 a month, but as tenants leave I can get 650 with hud per house. in 2019 I can raise all rents regardless, but won't do it all at once so as not to spike vacancy too high at one time.

I'm curious to see if you've had water bill spiking on other properties as well.

I've paid good $ in the past for web designers and haven't exactly been head-over-heels in love with the results.

They are just going to bring in space heaters anyway, which will spike your electric bill and be a fire hazard. 

Currently paying $2500 for 2/1.5 1000sqft condo with non-existant weatherproofing and loud, well-heeled college student neighbors.Why?

I live 40 miles away, so I called the owner of the biggest plumbing co in the city and he and 2 techs drpped everything to get to the property within 10 minutes of my call.I had put a garage outdoor access remote on the outside of the house.. they couldn't get in thru that because THE POWER WAS NOW OFF.Luckily i had put a coded door knob on the kitchen door that opens to the deck-- i gave them the code and they were inside instantly.The water heater was STILL SPEWING WATER full blast in a stream so strong it was hitting the second story ceiling and hitting the ELECTRICAL PANEL also located in the garage and that's what had knocked out the power .The plumbers immediately turned off the inside water main cutoffand sent me photos of the EMERGENCY SITUATION the pm so calmly let me know about by email an hour earlier.i fired the pm co that instant and got on the phone to start farm (my rental policy ins co) whiledriving an hour to the property.i also called the city's best WATER EMERGENCY REMEDIATION COMpany while en route.When i got there, the water was turned off ( finally)the drywall ceiling had fallen in, the light fixtures destroyed, the garage door open case was HALF FULL OF WATER and there were 1000s of mold blooms on every surface and hundreds of stacks of spiky growing black mold (looked like iron fiilings we used to play with in that game we all had as kids where u use a magnet and drag the iron filings around to put hair and a mustache on the bald guy cartoon photo) the mold spikes were 1.5" tall on the woot railings and stairs going into the house, on all of my beautiful built in wooden garage shelves--- what a mess-- like the streets of Beirut after the bombs went offand I don't have allergies -- but i could not even STAND inside the garage because the WET MOLD MILDEW SMELL was so strong it instantly gagged me and gave me a headache and i couldn't breathe.So here Ewe are on Jan 17 and now i know that the BEST rental dwelling policy dies NOT COVER MOLD REMEDIATION AT ALL ( so far $14,000) but it does cover water damage with a $2500 deductible...

Until prices started spiking, my 20 year plan was to get to 60 homes, rent them till I turned 60, and then sell off 3 a year till god calls me :-) But the man I met for lunch is 72, has 100 SFH Notes and Mortgages, and now does HML on the side with his 'zero' management financing.