The downside to having tenants pay for the water is you can bet your buns that tenants will not water the trees, shrubs or lawns when they are paying for the water and I know for a fact it costs more money to put a yard back together than you will ever pay for water.Here is another serious problem with tenants paying for their own water in a duplex.

The videoboard is 120 yards long and 75 yards wide — larger than the football field below!

Renter pays $850 /month, utilities and cares for the yard...With these numbers, the Investor knows that ROI is 19.64% and it will take roughly. 10 years and 8 months to pay off the property dedicating the ROI to a mortgage.

Just wondering why would you not put the yard and the snow removal on the tenant?

Speaking of neighborhood, this is in a million dollar neighborhood and you have a view of the water across the street through the neighbor's big yard and driveway.

The structure of the home is sound as a structural engineer has shared with us what needs to be replaced and what can be salvaged. 

Clean manicured yard. 

No fence around the pool, but the law didn't require one and the yard was fenced. 

I currently work for a lumber company and I primarily sell to retail lumber yards, distributors, office wholesalers (jobbers) and General Contractors (GCs).

He said the only way to check it was to have a crew come in and start digging up the yard.