Just goole search Tampa, billons of dollars of commercial and residential development is being spearheaded into Tampa backed by people like Bill Gates.

Wholesaling is not real estate investing, it is mostly a marketing business. second, your concerns of legalities are legit and there are numerous threads on here about this topic, I suggest reading them and paying attention to the veteran and experienced investors, keeping caution on some of the other comments as many are self serving in this space.Here is the real meat and potatoes - wholesaling as a rookie is (in my opinion) even more difficult than doing a rehab flip.

Even if you did long term 12-month leases there is no one person who would feel ok with managing the electricity bill himself, and it’s nearly impossible to split it up amongst the tenants especially when turnover rate is expected to be higher.

The mortgage is 24000 and the rest goes into bills and other things.

I would listen to the numerous amounts of podcasts that discuss this in great detail.

Hi BP, We just got a letter for one of our rental properties (it's quickly becoming a problem property for me,) and it is a "30 day notice of an intent to file a Municipal Lien" for an $8000.00 past due utility bill accumulated by the previous owner over a year before we purchased the property.   

From someone who started REI when working as an associate in BigLaw billing huge hours:(1) Weekends(2) Get up 1-2 hours earlier work day mornings 

The water bill etc.

If you didn't provide the tenants a sheet with itemized charges at the beginning of the lease, then you should hire it out and bill the tenants back. 

Wondering what some of the water bills at your properties are or have been recently ?