The home inspection will come with some other small things that need to be looked at.Check all the water heating and HVAC, and water pressure in the building.see if you can locate the pressure regulator if you cant it could cost you $350 to find each and replace it.

That gets really expensive and when you multiply it by 5x most people find they try to tread water by going back to a day job and eventually can't sustain. 

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?

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

Put yourself in the seller's shoes: if they have two offers on the table and one is from an unknown out of state lender (or national, faceless, on-line lender) and the other has closed tons of deals with your agent and is a known quantity, who do you think you'd go with?

If they are (when you invest), then you're doing it wrong...and you're probably leaving all kinds of opportunities (money) on many tables.

I’m sure you have a whole operation going on but if you have room somewhere to guide a couple of rookies in your area in return for however we can assist you or even jumping in our deal as well, everything is on the table on my end! 

As one of my close friends says if they accept your offer not it is time to ask for more discounts now there are only two people on the table.

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".