That's the reason there are so many fourplexes and so few fiveplexes or even sixplexes.From what I gather, post offices and utility companies rarely care much about the permitting/zoning issues, so it probably wouldn't have been hard to get those set up.

Just because the costs might be in the furture does not warrant not budgeting for those known expensesThen there is the misc costs of asset protection, bookkeeping, unexpected utilities (such as between tenants (tenant turn over) or failure not attributable to the tenant such as slab leak).  

Even something as simple as utilizing ChatGPT to speed up certain processes such as asking for generalized information on a market's demographics and immigration patterns can be useful and save a lot of time.

Adding the current mortgage and utilities would be roughly $1,350 resulting in a profit of $650/mo.

It was built in the 2010s and located in an established neighborhood with convenient access to schools, amenities, and major transportation routes.

You will have to gather more accurate operating costs (vacancy loss, taxes, utilities, insurance, mgmt fees, maintenance, HOA) to best determine potential future performance.

If you have high holding costs (financing, taxes, insurance, utilities, etc.) the longer you are holding the less money that you are makingSelling profitably - How long will it take to sell?

In our experience that is what carries the day along with the area and the STR restrictions or lack thereof(a whole other conversation) that deems the valuations.Airbnb and VRBO have thought of this and are way ahead of it, we scaled quickly using these platforms for two high end STR that book out great, once we established that, we created a direct book website and are slowly pulling our repeats from that.

Implementing water-saving initiatives is a smart way to reduce utility costs.

Originally posted by @Kelly Watkins:Residential developers in Wichita pass the cost of the neighborhood utilities (sewers, streets etc..) onto the buyer.