Review your leases to see if it's defined who pays water.

It's an established aspect of human nature that goes back to pre-history.

Define the commercial real estate asset class you want to learn.

I am still in the process of defining my investing goals, but so far I lean more towards building a small investing business rather than going with a turnkey option.

I sell all my deals without a buyer website and most sell inhours or a few days.You can't really say "DMM works whether"....You need to define what it means "works". 

Have no clue what it entails to sell or price the house, have super crocodile bath breath, have no idea what upgrades are worth, have no clue what items of their house brings value and what items do not, and what items actually reduce value (a crappy pool, a desperately needed to be torn down shed) etc. etc.Although motivated sellers, they are in many aspects worse than a blind targeted lead where you have to argue and debate trying to convince them their house is really not all that!

One really tricky aspect comes into play with partials. 

The only people who think, or at least say that any aspect of real estate investing is simple, easy, requires little capital, without risk, can be done part time, or requires minimal education, experience, and talent, are people who are newbies or gurus selling the newbies mentoring services.  

Work on you.. in the beginning it will feel like there is no progress, but suddenly you will realize you are far superior than your competitors (that relied on networking) to define themselves.. and THEN things will get fun!

Brief follow up on response from contractor regarding some aspects of this potential project.