Jegan - unfortunately you have not provide enough information to allow an intelligent response.

I am leaning away from this option.2) Pay the difference in the electric bills and chalk it up as the cost of doing business.3) Pay the difference in the electric bills up front and seek restitution from the contractor for causing the delay in the process, which resulted in the lengthy term of higher utility billing to the one apartment.4) Provide the tenant with the contractor's contact information and invite them to seek restitution directly.

I managed to track down the previous seller and informed him it was his responsibility to file a release of mortgage form and even provided him with a form already filled out for him to sign and notarize. 

@James JonesIn order to get an answer, you need to share some information.1) Was this home your primary residence?

I would like to start growing a solid list of people to mail deal information too so I can start getting my feet wet, so to speak!

Big sports and movie/tv fan. 

BP has mountains of information for you to absorb and learn.

We get together and talk about what has been going on in our investments and feed off of each others information and ideas. 

Its hard to keep up sometimes but I've manage to absorb a lot of information from them so far.

Hi BP,As a new "real estate investor," you can get overwhelmed with the influx of information that is available.