If its city water/sewer the only utility risk is who owns the pipes.

Why buy a 200K house and keep it long term, so by the time its paid off its worth nothing because there is no water left?

ok cool it just switch from servicer to HUD a week ago they hadn't even listed it yet I found house driving for dollar and called owner.

The buyers home inspection found there was a leak and some water intrusion and that some drywall needed to be replaced. 

Its starting to cool, so that means its going from insane to just ridiculous.

Philadelphia has been looking good to me, it’s a great city and I go often so for REI to work there too that’s pretty cool to me.

My goal here is to identify a cool city where I want to househack a second 4-plex and rent out my unit in the first one.

Pretty cool if you have other employees who are starting out... not really necessary if you Cold call people Alot ( I say this because if you cold-call often, naturally, you'll pretty much have your Pitches down-packed .Contact me anytime  and i'll gladly share some knowledge with you. 

In Maine, it's very common for landlord supplied heat simply because heating oil and winters can be so unpredictable that both lower income tenants AND financially savvy blue collar tenants lean toward "heat and hot water included".

Also look for the electric/gas/water meters.