That would mean tearing up the yard, the walls and ceilings to install it.I pointed out that the kids would be tripping the alarm all the time and activating the sprinkler system.

One of my rentals has a couple with three kids.

Jon Klaus - We will have sponsors for the event -- without which, I'd be using my kids college fund to pay for the event.

Townsend - thanks for the tip.

How their kids behave is a big thing as well.

The kids wanted to move in a few days early, so they have been in about 3 days...they made it into my January month by two days!

Keep it up and thanks for sharing the tip.

But I wanted to post that tip in case someone else comes across this thread while looking for help tracking down old liens.

Sounds like you're pretty busy with 4 kids that are homeschooled.

I do have each person on the lease.The type of tenant base this is however is that say a mother,son and daughter live there.Her sister approaches the mother and says let us move in and we will pay 250 towards the rent as we can't afford a place of our own.Upon our bi-weekly inspections we find that the sister and her 2 kids are there.Now you have 6 using the water etc.The reality with apartment buildings of this age and tenant base is that families consolidate to save costs.They might be renting an apartment elsewhere for 600.Job hours are cut and they move in with sis and pay 250 and save 350 a month.The extra usage of water is what I am concerned about.I do not condone extra people there but want to control extra water usage.