UTILITIES: Water and sewer service and curbside trash removal are provided to you.

There's no one size fits all approach to real estate investing and depending on your resources, skill set, and capabilities you may excel in one particular market or utilizing a specific strategy whereas another investor will excel using a different approach.  

Inspection Costs - $400 Lender Fees - $1,000 Closing Costs - $2,000 Mortgage Payments - $2,500 Property Taxes - $600 Utilities - $1,000 Insurance - $200 Commissions - $4,000 Selling Closing Costs - $4,000 Home Warranty - $500 Termite Letter - $100 MLS Fees - $100 

Just because the cost of the utility is included, doesn't mean you can control if it works or doesn't work.

@Justin Woods In order to utilize a cost segregation study, the property must be an investment property and placed in service.

We utilize Buildium which seems to pretty organized and easy for our tenants pay their rent through. 

Utilize Meetup.com or Eventbrite for real estate investing groups, BiggerPockets forums, CTPOA, and local events to connect with landlords, agents, and property managers.

Operating Expenses includes taxes, vacancy, utilities, insurance, maintenance, and management fee.

Which profits can than be utilized to carry forward into the then "good" MFH acquisition timing of things. 

I don't expect millions for pennies, in fact, I resisted going up on my tenants rent during the pandemic since they have to pay all utilities.