Aside from avoiding the vacant house look due to no lighting, many municipalities require an inspection of the various utilities to reconnect after a prolonged period of no service. 

Hello everyone,I am new to real estate investing and am looking to get a good start at it. I currently have some money in saving but not the 10's of thousands some might have tucked away. I have recently heard about t...

@Tanya S.I had a heavy up on one of my properties done, and it took pepco like 3 months to come reconnect the meter, so yeah I believe it lol.

It needs some things and I'm actually enjoying some of the DIY parts, though long term I intend to get reconnected to the trades and hire all work out.  

There may have been xxxx amount of other people that you didn’t consider a success that you “lost contact” with as well, or just never attempted to reconnect with.

If your property has a panel that uses circuit breakers, the entire panel cover needs to be removed, this exposes a lot of live electric parts, and the tenant has to remove the existing circuit circuit breaker, disconnect a wire, and then reconnect the wire to a larger circuit breaker and then install that circuit breaker.

Thank you for reading my post and hopefully one day we will reconnect in our journey towards financial freedom! 

Permits (its ok for a homeowner to do anything themselves but a landlord has to have a licensed plumber reconnect the kitchen faucet when changing out countertops), inspections, etc, etc.Its ok for a homeowner to do anything they want and live in a house in any condition they want, but its not ok for a renter to?  

I've been meaning to reconnect with that landlord to see if he'd mentor me since I was a good tenant.

Hello @Sam Sharata, at your convenience check out Federal Grant Opportunities - Reconnecting America and Community Revitalization Incentives.