Make sure the roof overhangs the eves by 10-12" so water runs off onto the ground and not down the side of the home.  

Does anyone else worry about water in places like Vegas?

Modern plumbing and electrical, brick exterior, water drains away from house, no large trees near house, etc- No one will look after your property as well as you want them to.

In some states utilities like sewer and water can add up fast and they attach to the house.  

but, I personally find it unsatisfying and frustrating to have someone start a thread about them investing in RE syndication and asking other investors experience only to find that they have started the same exact thread many times in the past AND  after my exposure to their post....and then to top it off they are not even really investors, nor are they really going at the topic from an investor mindset, but, rather have a purely 100% ulterior motive of promoting their own syndication....AND to add injury to insult, they are really horrible garbage investments.My opinion of most accredited investors, is that trust is a key component for them, when investing in Syndication. if the networking technique is disingenuous, it just comes off as corny-time-share-tactics-manipulative base level conduct that is unappealing, untrustworthy and wastes time.I will say that all your points of essentially "caveat emptor" regarding ones own filter for things anywhere on the internet(including BP)are true, but, the benefit of micro-social media- climates like Bigger Pockets is that you get the benefit of other like minded, maybe even I dare say "smarter than me" individuals, weeding out what is the inevitable dissent into Craiglistification of said micro climate...meaning that eventually if all the post, or some critical mass of the posts, become of the aforementioned disingenuous type, the benefits of the this type of forum become less evident or more cumbersome and timely to get value from, and maybe even have negative return on time-equity.....IMHO

Expenses such as water, sewer, garbage, gas, electricity, lawn care, etc.

For example in my duplex the copper water piping developed pinhole leaks in several areas and needed to be replaced.

The biggest renovations we did to a house was paint and flooring throughout, whole new kitchen, new electrical, water heater, plumbing, new bathroom, and rebuilt part of the porch, and moved a window, and we didn't reach 20K so that might be a little high.

Plus I do all the ground work, taxes, water, liens and title searches for clean titles.

You need to set up a filter between what is in your head and what you share.