Your neighbor s as Sean mentioned, have a lower tax bill likely due to the fact that they live there and there are laws that prohibit the tax assessor from raising the property values more than 3% per year when it's your primary residence okay, it's also fairly common for your tax bill to significantly increase in the tax year after you purchase it.

Things that I think are obviously common sense are in fact completely incorrect.

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@Shelby Ek Do you need to activate the utilities in order to qualify for the loan you are getting?

@Tori Roy these are all over BP, and are super common.

It's also common for the "cash only" advertisements to come from brokers or sellers who are misinformed.

You will get people willing to share in high demand areas and you will see this in high rent areas but you are keeping up the common areas and it is a bit harder.

I have over 100 lots to build . utilities in place 800 people on waiting list for section we need houses.i am also a sec 8 landlord 

Common fees will include a set-up fee, a leasing fee for each turnover or a lease renewal fee, marking up maintenance, retaining late fees, and more.

For example the license should not only have a cost but also require at least some compliance training targeting some of the most common issues/complaints.