If the sellers get a tax lien, die, divorce, etc, your contract for deed is in trouble.If you purchase the property normally where title is transferred into your name and the seller holds a Note and Deed of Trust against the property for the purchase price, all of these nasty situations are avoided. 

The easiest utility to have transferred to a tenant and have attach to a tenant is the electric.

Utilities - $300 seems fineInsurance - $100 - $150 moProperty tax - I'd say 1.25 % would be more accurateMaintenance - I'd allow $500/mo to start a cap fund for when e larger repair is neededInternet - $100 mo is what most pay for a good bandwidth.

@Chris SeveneyThe Socialists use COVID and the like to pass legislation to weaken property rights and further their agenda of destroying private property and instituting state property ownership.In 1947 NYC, using the post war housing shortage as an excuse, instituted the “temporary” measure of rent control. 70+ years later the temporary measure, as well as a companion measure instituted in1971 is still in effect, with the effect of having provided a transfer of wealth from property owners to tenants.

I have a SFR rental in Las Vegas, NV that was recently transferred to me by quit claim deed from a parent. 

Which means I need to open an account - have $$ transferred from retirement account to business bank account - then check written from there to purchase home.  

Hi, I am trying to transfer funds over to the title company by using Plastiq.

You can transfer the $$ into your account to show the lender and then back again.....Why are they in her account?

Can anyone recommend the best e-sign lease document for Massachusetts?

I have a SFR rental in Las Vegas, NV that was recently transferred to me by quit claim deed from a parent.