Happy to refer over my attorney in the Columbus Ohio area, he's great!

If you are just starting, I would think on a leveraged purchase, $200 a month in todays market, that is assuming the home is fully renovated and capex items are fairly new.

I'm assuming you're referring to residential (SF and MF) properties that are vacant, is that correct?

You’ll buy a property pretty much at market value and the property management company will handle the day to day items.

Many years ago when foreclosures were the hot item and every idiot in town was getting rich from them till the bubble burst, I paid $180 for Carlton Sheets No money down deal course hardcopy books and cd's well I bought the house I was renting with 0 down.

Other items such as having accounts in a foreign country.If you are single/married, with a few W-2's, interest/dividend accounts with one rental property.

VRBO collects the tax for you as a separate line item on top of your rate.

You don't want to invest in a place you have never been to unless you are using a vertically integrated turnkey provider that others can give you references for.

I know very little about legal precedent but I'd expect the major meter manufactures (selling into the utility space) to be well incentived to challenge these items best they can, and they have money.Here are the issues, and the reasons that the difference between an air forced system and a boiler/hydronic system are not meaningful for this discussion (ie efficacy issues of sub metering exist for either when method of measurement is measuring heat at point of delivery):In either case, the blower (or pump for a boiler) is the method of 'moving' either air (central air) or water/glycol or equivalent (boiler etc). 

Always account for the costs of upcoming capital expenditure items in your purchase price.