One by the county for unpaid sewage, bankruptcy, and the city was shutting off his electricity and boarding the place up because he inherited the house a year ago when his mother passed and never started probate.

I shut it down and form another LLC. 

If it’s too expensive to separate out the heating costs with the furnace see if you can shut off the second unit and install a separate heating system.

A prospective tenant views the apt with me, and I tell them "What you see is what you get, aside from a good cleaning, if you were to move in here, this is how you would get the apartment" .....then they move in and it's "what about this little paint blemish on the wall, what about that 1 cracked floor tile in the kitchen" ......I shut it right down.

Someone meet with tenant to turn over keys, go over emergency shut off locations, features of the house, etc. 

I've had one of mine shut down in Salt Lake but it was because the neighbors kept complaining.

Hi Chris, I'm in the DMV area (Falls Church area) and have been searching for passive investment options.

Unless both the circuit breaker for the heater and the local disconnect are locked inside an "Authorized Personnel Only" area, the tenant(s) can always shut the heat off.

Your landlord sounds like a flake, a self-managing hobby landlord who hasn't realized he shouldn't be self-managing if he can't shut his stupid hole when the chips are down and not make empty threats.

Here is your chance to get it for free.My intention is to for once and for all shut all these gurus up and enlightn you all with what truly works and what is just luck!