I grew up working construction/ farming (no i'm not misspelling framing, I mean farming) with my family, it built a solid foundation for working with my hands, so I can offer most all face-lift type work, drywall, maintenance work, roofing, landscaping, painting, etc, along with operating almost all heavy equipment, from loaders to SkyTracks, to basic things like chainsaws, and different hand/power tools.

I can't stand NREIG and that's who I'm with, but I am insuring vacant properties.I have a conference call with Arcana this morning - they have been offering policies for landlords, renters and builders risk for years and they have just partnered with National REIA - that means better rates and buying power for the members of National REIA.

I worry that someday, some deranged neo-Nazi party in the country of my birth may gain enough power to do real damage and I wouldn't be able to put any financial muscle behind organizations that will work to do something about it.Convince your wife to get into this, Joseph.

Powerful story.

Because of their processes, relationships, and buying power, you're not paying any more than the additional markup that you paid your contractor, AND you have a warranty. 

The other danger here is that you could control the power to one outlet for the A/C however, A/C’s are 120 volts now, what is to prevent tenant from running an extension cord from another outlet?

You must have that motivation and power to succeed in anything that you do.

In addition I have some other buildings that currently draw off the tenants meter and I plan to sub meter them to reimburse them for the power. 

What a #$%$!!! I

Assume you have a 100k HELOC, I understand the leverage power of purchasing 5 100K properties using 20K down each instead of paying cash for 1 100K property, this concept seems to work best with buy and hold properties, in my opinion anyways.