These are banks or private lenders that lend their own money instead of writing the loans and selling them off to bigger banks.

Write a blog.

Very relevant as we all do our yearly tax rituals (whatever yours may be)...The Schedule E is not ideal, but for round peg expenses (that are legit "ordinary and necessary" expenses, and the IRS and tax courts have lots of info, be it regs, opinions, and decisions on that) that do not fit in their Schedule E round hole categories, I try good ole' Line 19 and I even write in a couple (be it condo dues or cell phone) that are major contributors to the category in the small space provided.

Let your ambition, talent, and goals be apparent when you talk to people. 

Basically the owner gets the bill from the utility company and pays the bill, then they use a different company to take in the data from all the submeters collected from the BMS system to write their own bills to the tenants to get reimbursed.  

You could even write off a portion of the expenses for the property.

Get some disclosure doc in writing from the seller that they are aware they owe you (even allowing you a $1k lien on the property) if no deal happens through you.  

I would get everything in writing, detailed scope of works, dates at which certain projects should be completed. 

I have seen funds find out only years after buying liens, that they must write of many liens.

Probably the fact that they thinking out the hundreds of deals that have to write at 65% of Arv and the fact most investors are flipping contracts and failing to close on the occasional deal they do get accepted