If you feel you must alter the terms of the lease, consider:if you announce your intentions to all at the same time, you're likely to get a mass exodus.consider staging the notices one per month starting with the lowest rentsIf they bolt, you can cleanup and re-rent as you please. 

Furthermore, all the excess power put back on to the grid is accumulated in the landlord's utility account.

@Joseph Scorese, As you may have guessed, I'm still in the, "I don't know what I don't know" stage...but consider yourself on top of my list for professional advice as Grant Greene suggested!

This means that they allow me to get more money as the jobs reaches different stages.

I'm about the same stage of my real estate investing as you (although I have a principle place of residence already).Hope you continue learning and enjoy BP.

Title costs seem excessive, ask for a breakdown and compare with another title company before closing.

I typed up a statement of work and percentages I would pay at each stage.

Absolutely everyone in this country will see a drop in their quality of life in a dollar devaluation stage.

I know there are real estate groups in Houston, but I do not know where I can go in order to "sign-up" per se.If you do live in Houston, and are willing to help me out a little through my infant stages of my real estate journey, please shoot me a private message and I will get back to you as soon as I can.

But what I will do on this post is I will tell you in general what paperwork to use.Three stagesThe first stages when you create a legal relationship with the seller, so you enter into a letter of intent to lease or purchase,  and this spells out what will happen, that you as a investor and not as an agent will lease and option the owners’ property and you will sell your agreement to a buyer for a fee, and how much this fee is.