Some of the properties have separate utilities that the tenant pays but some of the properties have common utilities that the landlord pays.

Ivan This is common is some areas.

It would then be near impossible to make up for the lost time and the cost that I incurred by the vacancy.This is very common practice and if you want to feel more protected, don't agree to the 'hold deposit' until you see a copy of the lease that you will be required to execute.

Encourage people from all walks of life to serve their country as senator or congressman or council member and then after a couple terms let them get back to doing some 'real' work.I want a party made up of people with common sense, people with honor, and people with courage.

The cost to repair common elements such as roof, gutters, landscaping, driveway, etc, can be split in half.

As Josh said, anyone with common sense knew that the average blue collar worker can't afford to live in a $500,000 house!

Common sense tells us no, but investors actions during the boom shows us that many believed it was possible

That's called "cross collateralization", and is a common technique to use one property's equity to acquire another.

Figure out how you're going to screen tenants, both just as tenants (credit report, criminal background, eviction check, employment, etc, look in the landlording forum for a sticky thread on this topic) as well as for their ability to buy.

You do not need to employ Lamar to do so for you. - Just a suggestion as I feel it would be more efficient of your own time.Lets try and keep this more civil and productive rather than the 2 pages of back and forth.