I manage them from my phone with a day job, a family, 3 dogs, I've run 22 full marathons, I eat lightning and crap thunder. 

I may have to eat the utilities and no rent until it warms up in about April or May. 

So, if you have a leveraged property with a tenant not paying rent, you are essentially going to be eating the PIMI.

There are def bad areas in these towns,  and also areas that require flood insurance which will eat up your cash flow.  

Or you can let him get away with it and  simply move on eat the loss of  a few months no rent. 

He also won't reimburse me for the fees even though he is sending the money the wrong way and he thinks I should eat the cost.

You need to get that loan paid off and eat the tax loss.

Cable and internet fall into this category.Now if this is a month to month rental, I would not expect cable, internet, cooking and eating utensils, towels, soap and the like to be provided. 

You are being selfish and in your quest to "have your cake and eat it too", you may end up with three vacancies.One other thing to keep in mind is that two vacancies at the same time is easier to fill than two separate vacancies.

I would want to charge around 1500 to CF 400/m which is 4800/yr. id be happy with that. leaves room to save for vacancies, fixes, random HOA assessments, but if you are out of town as mentioned then you will have a PM which will eat into that with leasing charges (possibly) and a monthly charge (more than likely) and you could see that 4800 turn into possibly 2000$/m or less.