Charge extra to cover power  / utilities. 

That being said he wants to give an extra $15k to first time homeowners and they want to keep giving away free money which will make these issues worse. 

they told us our courses were similar except we have extra hours so that we can write contracts. 

If using landlord locks, just buy an extra cylinder. 

A colleague has a property manger that is charging a lot of extra fees each month. 

It's still a lot of extra work on your part.I personally recommend you just include water with the rent.

When we told her there were extra charges from the HVAC tech she would have to pay for after hours work, she got upset and wouldn't let us in the property.

My grandmother though left a trust behind to distribute her property to her descendants with a little extra for that family member.

30 Day notice and if you have it sent from a lawyers office it might carry an extra bit of weight that could get their attention as they clearly are not paying attention to you. 

The idea is: get credit, and money, first.Otherwise, you're battling uphill paying high interest to money Lenders, and/or risk becoming a Wholesaler "wannabe" by spending days and weekends trying to find bargains that you can on-sell for more than you promise to pay Sellers, but then falling in a heap when you can't find buyers to pay the extra you think it should be worth.That's not the way you want to enter Real Estate.There's properties that can be bought for less than $10k - and you have to live somewhere, right?