There's a lot available on this topic; here's one source:  https://www.land.com/owning/ho...In your case, you should be able to simply contact the electric provider directly.

Shockingly, the owners that respond to postcards want to sell for prices that simply don't crunch as rentals.I can tell you that from the other side of those brightly-colored post cards (the one the I tossed out today was bright green), that property owners are being flooded with postcards from all over the country (green was an outfit in FLA).  

We are a small property management company here in Connecticut and owners often tell us that they like dealing with us simply because we actually pick up the phone and their return calls when they are looking for a PM, a pretty low bar.

Now we have a situation where we need to build a huge amount of new units just to keep up with demand - we simply have more people than roofs - and so the cost of existing homes has to creep up closer to the cost of new construction plus land.

I am based in NJ and I’m certainly not looking for anything super cost aggressive as I am new and simply looking for some degree of paid mentor ship that I can leverage Real Estate Competent advice from.

Why not give them the option of getting out of the lease and simply finding new tenants with a better background? 

It simply costs less to do business in Texas than it does Silicon Valley. 

I simply need real-world experience.

The option agreement is what gives one the option to buy the home without being obligated to purchasing it3- more involved process than simply signing a lease or a purchase agreementIf your main objective is to prevent breaking a lease, finding a property with "month to month" leasing may be your best bet. 

If your tenant decides that he/she do not want to pay, even if they werent impacted by covid, they wont - they will simply deal with the consequences later (if there will be any).