By doing that, we’re saving quite a bit because the tenants were already paying their cooking gas.

The former is a habitability/use-and-enjoyment issue and the latter are features that can be replaced by other means of cooking/washing the dishes. 

As the story goes, I received a letter from Cook County (A.k.a CrooK County) saying there is a violation against the property. 

The "golden triangle" of pot growing is Shasta, Humboldt and Trinity Counties in CA.

I am guessing tenants will at minimum pay electric and maybe cooking gas.

Nowadays, water run about $100/month per apartment, and even here, for $50K it's not worth it, particularly if I have no problems to begin with.On the other hand, for a side by side duplex, the cost of re doing the plumbing may be minimal.I looked into separating gas charges for a co-worker, who rents an apartment, and the landlord splits the monthly $30.00 cooking gas bill with him.

This meant that the building got good care for a number of years, but after the passing, deferred maintenance and not knowing how to deal with tenants made them go to pot.

Go look up un-cooked numbers from independent data sources.

@Scott Steffek I have been looking at Indy, NW Indiana and Chicago areas (both Cook and Dupage county) for B&H.

@Mike Solak The roof is new and the parking lot was recently patched to fill all the pot holes, so its got a little more life in it.