Where I own in St Paul, MN LL generally pays water/sewer/garbage, and tenants can pay gas/electric if your building is sub metered.

Also, wondering if the city requires garbage pickup for each separate address?

Method for collecting monthly rent:1) collecting rent and utilities via Venmo, zelle, PayPal depending on what person uses. 2) paying gas, electricity, WiFi, garbage, water etc myself and splitting amongst tenants and adding this to the monthly rent amount.3) doing all this via excel4) then going to each individual payment platform and requesting money.

During the escrow, the agent answered me that one of tenants (who has a lot of time as he can't work for a health reason) takes out garbage carts every week and bring them in for free.

In my city paying water/sewer/garbage is standard but I'm unsure how to handle utilities.  

Tenants will rant and rave about rents being increased or having to pay more money for anything, or about any changes that might require more work on their behalf (no more garbage chute that was always getting clogged up, meaning they had to take it down to the dumpsters going forward), etc.But, what I quickly learned is that if you start searching Craigslist or other websites for a similar apartment, and you raise their rents so that they are just enough below market so that it's cheaper to stay where they are in your building - they may bluster and beat their chests - but they'll stay put.So don't be too soft. 

Angelica [the girlfriend] said that perhaps it could be the garbage disposable pipe?

You don't want any stuff or garbage left and you want things to generally appear fairly clean.

I know there are a bunch of ADU threads, but the issues can get confusing to find answers to, so I thought I'd separate out the garbage, utility and parking issues.I've been joyously pouring over the Fresno City Development Codes......ouch, I bit my tongue.....looking at what it would take to develop raw land and ADU issues - just all of it. 

We've never raised the rent on them (rookie mistake) because they would help would help out with shoveling, putting out the garbage.