You could always run the deal past a lender and see what terms they have and or check in each year with a lender to monitor rates and options while you have 5 years with the seller financing.

Atchison tends to be a bit further out geographically for our appetite, but we monitor it from a higher level for low cap investment indicators in case needed.   

If there is no way to throttle, how can i monitor the energy consumption from each tenant? 

I have created a budget for us that I monitor month-to-month.

If my tenant's usage is 600 gallons per day, on the high end, instead of 344/day, the actual usage, my water charges would run almost $1,200 every 3 months for the duplex, or $400 month for the duplex, coming to $200/month per unit.I just recently change the billing to monthly to more closely monitor things.

Cons: my grandfather hack jobbed most repairs. leaking roof, stoop and porch need redone, lower unit kitchen needs complete remodel, 4-5 coats of paint on all walls, reoccurring mold in 1 bedroom and same bedroom needs insulation, upstairs unit you can hear anything and everything, all doors are original that came with the home, also have 4-5 coats of paint on them. small cockroach pest problem (not severe YET), Bathroom needs remodel and sewage lines need repair.

Luc:While nothing like the craziness in the BC's Lower Delta or southern Ontario's horseshoe, Halifax {proper} has enjoyed a pretty healthy  run of appreciation over the past number of  years ... to the point where we no longer seriously monitor the market as it is over priced from our perspective.

They can monitor escrow for you as well among other things.

The plan is to monitor with Arduino-based moisture probes and RPi 'dispatcher', which drives a pump via sonoff switches.

That we are not going to look the other way, that we enforce our agreements.It is very difficult to monitor, hard to prove whether people are truly living there or just there a lot.