Validate the qualifications with your CPA2) you may qualify for tax savings as a passive investor.

Given the gas price , that lease amount is HIGHLY UNLIKELY unless you happen to be in Core Permian Basin area :) Lot of people will say a lot of things ..To see whether a new dev may work , check population growth and home price increase from 2010 till now.

@Thomas Dunleavy This is definitely a valid idea.

Not even to verify the validity of an ESA certificate/letter.I guess that means you can contact the therapist's secretary to verify the ESA letter then?

I'm looking for a website that lets me plug in an address and estimate its utility costs, ideally by breaking them down into electricity, water + sewer, gas, and other city services like trash disposal. 

Put in a media room, an outdoor shooting range, a jacuzzi, firepit, horse shoe pit, have wifi and smart tv's, gas and charcoal grills, kegorator, boxing ring, free weights; and you'll have something similar to one of my larger houses.

They were completely unapologetic about their mistake and their handling of the entire situation just validated that they have no clue about student rentals.

If it already has a gas furnace and the duct work is all there you're better off sticking with the furnace.

Anyone with experience in Austin willing to validate my assumptions?

Maybe the live-in manager has a valid request - if he done extensive repairs to the property for which he was supposed to get N months of free-rent equivalent and still has M rents remaining, then of course he is upset and not "collaborating".Get the same statement from the live-in manager and see how it reconciles with the one from the seller.