Are you looking for near perfect credit, or are you open to some dings? 

The solution is to location the meters as close to the billed unit as possible (or even inside) but sometimes that's not convenient because the return and supply lines are on opposite sides of the building whereas you could easily put the meter right next to your boiler / zone valves where all of the pipes are easily accessible.As for cost per BTU, with oil, you keep a rolling average of the price per gallon in your tanks and divide the BTU's used by 138,500 (BTUs contained in a gallon of heating fuel).

This is the perfect situation for this.A third question would be, "is this his only property, and if not, are the other properties also paid off?". 

Inherited tenants are usually a negative, however in that area leaving the duplex totally vacant makes it a target for thieves to come in and steal your pipes, furnace, and hot water tanks.

If it tanks it will be a bad one.

There's no perfect software out there.

The seller is already in first position and in a perfect world I'm not refinancing out of those terms, and I'm not giving up equity to a money partner. 

If it were more than three years ago and everything else on their application was perfect, then I would consider it.However, I've never seen that in 15 years of management with hundreds of rentals and thousands of applications.

Homes rarely sell as quickly as their owners think they will, even when the owner is sure the home is priced perfectly.5.

Have done tons of cleanouts on evictions too, nothing surprises me anymore on how some people can live.The hot water tank had things growing in the hot water overflowing, the refrigerator was tucked in a back shed area where everything inside had liquified.