How much are nearby properties worth, what rent are they charging (check out rent estimators online like rentometer), do nearby landlords make tenants pay for utilities, etc.

put the utilities in your name, pack a sleeping bag and sleep there from day 1  and you will be safe..  

You have a few options to utilize your properties' equity to finance the cost of rehab, you can do one of the following:1.

Keep the utilities in your name during this period.

I am working on analyzing properties to get my math better and want to know what everyone on BP uses to estimate utilities and also rent for an area!

Can we turn off the utilities?

I hired an environment surveyor to do some of the due diligence you talked about --soil/perc test, drainage, utility, fire requirements, required setbacks, conceptual site plan, etc.For now, I am doing it by stages.

As seen in the report, I am charging utility outside of water and garbage to the tenants and about a 7% average for vacancy, maintenance and cap X with a 25 allocation each month as extra.

I would utilize the $100,000 for a down payment of an apartment complex that I have been eyeing to come on to the market; it has 30 doors & a laundry matt. 

Given property management, capex, maintenance, utilities, accounting, etc are expected to be the same between units and are a large portion of the overheard.