I also have a 4plex and one thing I have learned rather quickly is to not make a mountain out of a mole hill.

This is a professional/Expert DIYer level job.Commercial tenants should be paying their own utilities (and contribution to your capex), otherwise you are silently subsidizing their business.That said, tenants who pay their own utilities will be incentivised to find energy efficient locations.

I remember 10 years ago, I would fly out to Irvine from Chicago every phase release in the Casalon development in Quail Hill. 3bed / 3.5 bath 1600 sq/ft townhome were selling in the $350s in the first phase and each phase went to $30k by 2004 hit.

They've been pretty radio silent since we closed so I've reached out to them today to get a status update.

I grew up in Paradise (just up the hill from Chico), went to Chico State and rented around town the four years I was there.

Instead, he has decided toremain silent.

You should be familiar with the methods that title searchers use to find properties (parcel number cross-ref, tax id cross-ref, wild card searches, etc), so that you aren't relying on a single name search to verify lien history.I sometimes worry that people read about this stuff on here and conclude "there's gold in them hills" and start digging before they have any clue about what they're doing...

They lived all their lives in the Detroit area, had an established business there, and decided to move to Bloomfield Hills, one of the two wealthiest suburbs of Detroit.  

Surprised nobody mentioned the hill country west of austin TX yet.

Lots of commuters coming over the hill to buy....the market is very competitive.....near impossible to cash flow.