If you want to do it right (which you should do in this case), you'd have to put in a new common-area meter that both owners would be responsible for splitting. 

This lot has another service for all utilities it just needs to be cleaned up....

When working with the local electric utility, how is the electric paid for when putting in a new subdivision?  

Section 8 warn me to not stopping the utilities, otherwise I'll get a fine. 

I'm currently living in South San Francisco, CA with my mother and am not paying rent, just helping with utilities.

My total bill last month was $2800 which put's me on track thus far for over 33k per year not including tax returns.I should disclose that I have another business that keeps me traveling pretty much half the year.Our Real Estate business operation looks like this:Property manager handles tenants and collects rents, he deposits all rents into our accounts and coordinates the rent roll with bookkeeping, they cut him a check for his gross collected rent management fee, bank statements are automatically sent to CPA's office for them to reconcile against business credit card statements, they also handle 95% of day to day financial operations from there to include paying contractors, setting up utilities, paying company bills ,bank deposits etc. for 4 and now 5 entities with the short term rental llc.We have a initial goal of 100 doors so I it's pretty easy to see this cost jumping significanly in the not so distant future.

Also utilities if you are responsible for paying them.

Were you able to utilize a 1031? 

In the future, it can pay to turn the utilities on (even at your own expense) when you're buying Bank owned property in "as is" condition.

one needs to always have release clauses negotiated and in writing in the NOTE> and Mortgage.although its common to pay prorate plus 10 to 20% more to get a property released.this is how we do our subdivision new build loans..