Due to my experience, knowledge of the tax code, and comfort with different capabilities of various versions of TurboTax, I am very comfortable doing my own tax returns with TurboTax. 

Black pipe is not too bad, it's just the labor and knowledge to do it that really gets you.If you have the aptitude to do this, you can go for it.Option 2: Meter it yourself and manage the billing yourself ---> We looked into this but it just didn't sound like something we wanted to mess with and even with this, it would heavily depend on your existing configuation as far as the cost/feasibility. 

Figure out what you want - would you like to be released from the lease and move to a place with a knowledgeable and ethical landlord, or do you want to stay there and be firm with enforcing tenant-landlord law with him?

So after we get to know the city officials the permitting process all that knowledge had to be relearned in the next small town.

There is a wealth of knowledge here -- I am always searching for answers to weird questions.  

Dan, to my knowledge NY does not have any statutes in the books concerning "abandoned" tenant property.

While experienced investors have occasionally found the 'diamond in the rough', it takes a lot of looking, knowing where to look, having extensive contacts (of the right kind), and the knowledge and experience to recognize the real deal.  

I am young and want to start young although I lack the knowledge and experience.

But since most refuse to follow common sense advice, and gotta get a good healthy dose of a bad tenant experience in order to learn, consider doing the following:   Collect or you pay 75.00 and do a more extensive background check.Require a $500k non-refundable Pet "Fee,"  Not a pet deposit, but Pet Fee. 

Initially when I started working in loans, the idea was to study for my RE license along the way and gain knowledge of the loan side so I’d be more informed when I became an agent.