The utilities are not on in the remaining units--nor can I have them turned on any time soon.

The owner will likely not want to put his tenants of the building at risk of losing their customer and employee parking.

You don't have to worry about exterior maintenance, mowing, exterior insurance, roofs, and possibly utilities.

If you can utilize one or all of these comfortably it will help a lot.2.

Also, at least here, it would depend on how they were built-for separate fee simple units, they would have to have separate utilities, not crossing the common property line, otherwise they would have to be condominium ownership if divided.

Are there any utilities that you have to pay?

A couple thingsNot sure if NC has this, but in MI the utility companies have landlord programs.

Quickbooks allows you to create custom reports, so just create a report for cash flow by class.

You can have multiple gas meters installed so that each tenant pays their own utility bills.

Consider utilizing a corporation and a 401k for matching contributions to decrease some of that taxable income.