@Sam Leon In our case we provide complimentary Internet as a side effect of having fibre dropped into our properties for our property monitoring system.  

I encourage you to start monitoring Craigslist on a regular basis (even when you have no vacancies) so you have a really good handle on market rent, comparable quality and features, move in specials, and what the market can bear for security and move in money.This is tax return time,w hen folks have the most move in money available.

we have automated the rent collection process using rent monitor.

We then set perimeters by which we would approve use of a space heater as a temporary measure and monitored his compliance with proper use of the space heater.

House sitter" - {not yet universally available} - Tenants can monitor their home from their smartphone.Internet (FibreOp) - we require internet access for our building monitoring system, so we make basic Internet (30Mb/10Mb) available to our tenants"Take me Home" - {for our student tenants} - provides the tenant with a cab card for one of the local taxi providers.

For those that have been monitoring this thread, like I have, Money360 apparently has revamped their website and has been actively closing commercial deals.

The electric only becomes an issue when they run the AC any you could probably monitor that and bill them accordingly.

I don't want to recreate what full service PMs provide, but I do monitor my portfolio.I nearly always have my tablet with me, so expect cloud-based service.

Just to the north, Ridgefield seems to sprout new developments daily and they are investing money on roads and other infrastructure.

Mike, The thing you have to remember with a large national bank is 1)when they offer a financial lending package they have to lend that throughout the whole network, and investment property is vastly different in 1 area as opposed to another, which leads to point 2)big national chains do not have the solid infrastructure in place to regulate the writing of those loans, because every one must be personally reviewed and rated as what, 9 out of 10 will be would-be novices with inaccurate numbers or actual cash flow well below there foretasted, that means a commercial lending agent will get swamped in new applications which will overload there system, and there in mess with there current commercial lending, possibly loosing accounts.