This is the simplest method, but it also means your tenants are more likely to abuse the utilities by leaving windows open with the heat or A/C running, leaving lights on, ignoring the toilet that constantly flushes on its own, etc.3.

Other risk-reducing factors—if the note is collateralized or includes features that reduce the element of investment risk, the note is less likely to be deemed a security.ericperkinslaw.com/when-does-a-private-business-loan-transaction-trigger-securities-lawsv/

I always look at the heating source and try to determine if it can be broken out to where the tenants pay for their own heat.

So he claims the only way to meet the equitable interest/equitable title/equitable conversion element under the new SC law is through an installment sale. 

For 20 years we have dealt with space heaters (of various types) for heating the room in the cold OH winters, or just ceiling fans for cooling in the summer.

Patience is a key element to all investing.

The heat lol

Duplexes have more appliances (2 kitchens and two heating/AC units) so that is a disatvantage but a used appliance can be fixed in an hour, a hole in the wall take a lot more time.  

Guarini Plumbers in Jersey City are great and A Degree Above Heating & Cooling are very personable. 

U still need the human element in the woods be hard to have robots out there walking up and down 10 to 30 degree pitch's where feller bunchers cant work and the trees still need human fellers to cut them down..