They can tell you how many tenants are needed to justify the cost of the machine and provide all the other information pertinent to installing coin operated machines.

There I was installing cabinets, painting apartments, etc.

Another landowner told me that he was approached by an outfit seeking land for the installation of windmills or windfarms as they call it.

Over the last two years, we had to redo the roofs of each building, some of the siding, installed new lights.  

I love them and have had very little trouble in 20 years of installing them.

You can have private meters installed but sometimes it is too cost prohibitive.

Imagine a duplex built maybe circa 1950, and a hardworking youngish guy with some DIY skills and smarts buys it as a good investment new, self-manages it and kept it up nicely for thirty-some years.

I got creative by installing an exterior door in the right place to essentially turn it into a duplex: airbnb in the main house thru the front door and a simple mother-in-law apartment where I lived entering thru the side door.

I comment because the other issue I am facing is that the insurance company is canceling coverage because 2 of the units didn't have heat already installed when we did the inspection and now I am also scrambling to find out what type of heating they will cover.

If it were me, I'd go purchase and install cheap blinds, (you have cashflow for that) and tell the tenant that damage to these WILL be deducted from the deposit.