Sounds like your property is worth alot more than mine was so dsay yours had the same $50k damage mine had (mind you the fire didn't touch my house, it was all water, some smoke and firefighters breaking stuff).

Is it in Anne Arundel near the water?

You want other to pay their own electric & water if you can help it6.  

This year I was able to reduce the trash bill by about $300 a month, converted each tenant to my new lease and had them start paying their own water bills, rehabbed the 4 units that were vacant, raised the rent in at least 50% of the units, and I just cut a check to the owners for August 2014 as $10,587.00. 

In either case, look for water stains/signs of mold.

Mortgage, insurance, taxes, & water = $2000 a month.My initial plan: Buy a triplex or quad every 2-3 years. 

The property is in a bad area, I have owned it for approx. 6 years and the first three years I treaded water on a monthly cash flow, but the last three years have been a disaster.

Appfolio charges $9.50 for every unit covered, but when you have a stupid tenant that doesn't hear a toilet running all night and wakes up to water through the entire kitchen and bathroom of her apartment, that is what it is for.  

He pushed it a good foot so that the water lines underneath the home have busted and a couple of the cinder blocks it stands on are askew making it unsafe for them to stay there.They have paid their rent for this month but do not have extra money for a hotel.

I work as a heavy equipment operator for a sewer and water main company in downtown Toronto, but I have the ambition to do more than just work for someone else every day.