Not asking for legal advice, but I am asking for a little guidance...I'm paying the utilities in a house.

Are all of the utilities separate?

The $1500 operating expenses are things like taxes, insurance, management (even if you do it yourself), maintenance, advertising, office expenses, utilities (even if only during vacancies), legal fees, evictions, damage done by tenants in excess of the security deposit, etc, etc, etc.

We are also concious of energy and try to keep our utility bills to a minimum (shutting off lights, keeping heat down, etc.,).

You can get extensions, but its not always easy, and some banks will give you a very hard time about it, even so much as making you pay for an extension.

Utilize the back to further explain what you do, and how you can help people.

What I cannot account for is the utilities.

Utilities now covered by the tenant and that allows them a few moving days without having to rent both places.

I feel buy utilizing this forum, costly mistakes can be mitigated.

Currently we pay $1180 a month to rent out a 1140 square foot town home and about $1536.00 after utilities.