You'll want each unit to pay their own bill unless you are planning to implement an MTR/STR strategy in which case occupants tends to not put utilities into your their name and you are charging a much large fee each month.

After much legal advice, I understand I can't force a tenant in CA to leave (no-fault evictions are illegal here) unless they are arrested on the property, stop paying rent, or if you have a family member move in.

Don't try to be smarter than the city and not pay the license fee else you won't even get through the court doors.

Whether is taking his "course", paying for the self written articles about his success or aka writing "puff pieces", buying fake Instagram followers, sitting on FB marketplace trying to get someone to pay for a house they don't know is condemnable and pay to have DJ remodel it and DJ never completing the remodel,  him spending an enormous time defending himself in small claims court, and threatening charges on  people that don't know law so they pay what he wants.All of those examples came from either my observation, experience, or other peoples reviews of him.The guy rented me a condemnable property.

Based off previous property taxes payed by the family member, we estimate the property to be worth roughly 100k once livable.

For the price of courses, I pick up ones that appeal to me because I think that if I can add one thing from them it pays for itself. 

I’ve recently found a part time hustle that pays the same as the full time W-2 for about half the hours and I work when it’s convenient to me.

remember: if the net amount that goes to your mortgage after you collect rent is equal to or less than what you'd pay renting - you're ahead. 

Your landlord isn't going to pay any after hours, or weekend repair rates, and so you are most likely going to have to pay for those out of your own pocket, even though it's technically not your responsibility. 

You can search for members and see the agents (alongside everyone else) in Seattle but the only way to show up on a list of agents is to pay Bigger Pockets for advertising (currently $2,000 / 25 leads here in Seattle).