Who pays the bill if the AC goes out on your unit? 

Quote from @Bill B.: Add the outlet it’s universal and cheaper. 

Quote from @Bill B.: If they can do farm accounting they can do real estate in their sleep. 

As most people have mentioned there are numerous ways to invest, and get into the the real estate world.

, with CPS Energy in San Antonio, TexasDoes anyone know how to find out from CPS Energy if there is an active energy bill account for a particular property?

Treasuries will go "no bid" and there will be a collapse of confidence in both (i) the U.S. dollar, and (ii) U.S. treasury debt instruments [bills / bonds / etc].When this financial inflection point comes, you do not want to own assets who's values are directly tied and leveraged to the yield on U.S. treasury debt instruments (specifically commercial real estate where most market participants are max leveraged).

Now you talk about potential conflict..Especially when one of the couple has not told the other that they were not paying the bills and you show up as the owner and the other one is totally blindsided.

@Matthew PlatonWould you be able to split the utility bill, and have the tenant pay for their unit?

I was overconfident after successfully doing numerous value add rehabs when this spring we took on a rehab of a little unit that was listed as built in 1901 (I believe it was really built in 1920s and 1901 was used because they did not know when it was built).  

If yes, it's great they are separated for billing, but also, what are you going to do when they all break?