The property is separately metered for gas and electricity.

Hi Bruce,Yes, and flush the toilets and run the water in every drain, including floor drains.Open the windows for a while to air it out.The water evaporates in the traps and sewer gases fill the house.Don't light a match or smoke inside until the house airs out.Also be there when the water comes back on and look at, and listen (at the meter) for leaks.Good Luck!

separately metered for heat/electric-city trash/water/sewer is $120/quarterly.

Additionally there is a second meter that needs to be removed.

You might want to increase your vacancy allowance to 10% {unless you have good stats on the locale}; set a 10% {of gross revenue} maintenance allowance; allow 7-10% for PM.You also need to consider the following expenses:Hydro - does the building have a house meter?

The way they currently have it set up, they are paying all utilities (even though its all metered seperately), and there are 2 apts that they stopped updating that would be rented out with a little elbow grease.

As for utilities, we are checking with the provider to see if we can separately meter the garage, as we have to run new services.

Good old Smart meters!

Pay to separately meter the utility.

The real estate market is undervalued for now, with prime locations on average costing about 1,200 USD per square meter (about 110$ per square foot).