Make sure you document your original cost so you can show the loss on your taxes. :-). 

Contact the utility provider and get a historical average based on the last year of use.

The last 'p' -- just because I love a good alliteration -- seems to be patience.

With the last 2 homes, I've been getting a LOT of verified, Zillow applications from out of state and they want the house in 2 months.

In another Tax Sale case the owner of a property sold at Tax Sale was John Smith (not his real name), and on the tax records his last name was listed first so it read Smith John. 

However, I would look at the bills over the last year and split the water up according to occupants (upstairs=1.5, downstairs =2.5).  

Many thanks,RoseRose, I've seen massive success and incredible losses in RE investing. 

If you sell straight up you will have long term cap gains on this unless you lived in the property 2 out of the last 5 years. 

At the same time, by the time the market increases in price I will be paying 1K per month towards the mortgage to cover what the rent wont cover, so its 12K per year of loss (if I get a good tenants and nothing breaks), then who knows even if the market does go up...

Also Short term rentals have seen a significant dip in the last 18 months.