Turn the water heater valve off and see if that stops the pressure loss. 

The sale happened last year.

Lastly, run numbers until you can spot a deal instantly.

Investing in Milwaukee for the last 10 years I'm biased to recommend house hacking a duplex as the best way to start if you have limited capital.

I believe it is completely reasonable to have a clause in your lease that places a cap on utilities with any overage (proven by a bill) being the responsibility of the resident.Our clause states that any electrical bill (we don't have gas, and water has never been a problem) that is over double the same month's bill from last year will have the overage assigned as a fee.It is important to keep your bookkeeping straight if you do assess a fee.

If they pay late now as is, let's say they lose a job or have a temporary loss of income, you're kind of SOL.I would look to build reserves between now and August.

Has anybody worked with VRM and Vendee programs within the last 6 months, what have been your experiences, good and bad? 

Historically REITs in US have outperformed the sp500 for last 50/40/30 years by 3-4% a year, but they have underperformed sp500 in the last 20 years due to Quantitative Easing induced liquidity stock inflation.

Quote from @Doug Smith: When we started this company, I had been a special assets officer (handling non-performing loans for banks trying to extricate them from the deals with as little damage to them as possible) during the last big crash.

No action by the judge.An investor called me last week to tell me he had approached the foreclosed upon owner and purchased the right of redemption.