I’m probably panicking about it now.I wish you good fortune with the high maintenance guest to come.

Use the rent money to cover PITI + vacancy + maintenance. 

Sellers seem to want double what common sense dictates should be paid.

I looking for a maintenance/handy man in or around the Bellville Texas. 

@Michael Glaser I was thinking that you could finance them separately, not as a block. 30 year amortization on singles is common.

Yea it's common for hazard events (e.g., fire).

@Prakash Bhatta  The two most common ways people steal electricity are:  1) by tampering with the electrical panel and bypassing the meter  2) or by fraudulently establishing service in someone else's name (i.e. identity theft) and then not paying the bill and just running it up until the service is shut off due to non-payment. 

If it was a normal state, I wouldn't be worried so much about litigation, but in California common sense went up in smoke years ago.

For the 18 months that I hired them for their services, they have charged me over $11,000 for maintenance, repairs, & upkeep of this home.

By having them be there so long, have you really been delaying long term Capex and maintenance issues to the point that you are actually going to cost yourself more $$ because you put that stuff off too long?