OOS investing has been a huge headache for me, to be honest.One thing is that a property may pass an inspection but once the tenant is living there and and putting daily stress on the house,  turning on faucets and light switches, turning on heat/AC etc, thing will start to break/malfunction.

Heat, and Hot water is included in the rent. 

Base things like heat on the relative sizes of the units and water on the number of people living there.

After inspection we ask seller to fix few vital items like the heat wasn't working.

In the end; they would have had to dig-down the basement in order to achieve the necessary height, and then ended up just deciding to vacate the basement and convert it to "Heat and Storage" and ended up loosing all of their rentable potential from the basement level...Most of our clients see it as too much of a risk to try to keep the existing basement floor when it is around 6'-11" - 7'-1" rough.

in the SF peninsula and down to Cupertino there was a builder who built about 30k homes in the 50s and 60s  called Eickler these were modern heat in the floor tons of glass interior walk ways with gardens in them etc etc.. very unique ..

Therefore, if the tenant must pay heat, electric, hot water, cold water, sewer or trash, their rent assistance would be lowered to accommodate the tenant utility payments. 

Do you pay the heating/cooling or do the tenants pay those utilities?

Especially if demand for real estate heats up again soon with lower interest rates and a tight supply of homes.

Be careful if the heat runs.