I have been a natural gas broker for 23 years but come from a family of "investors" and I have also invested but I have very limited experience.

@Luke Hadden my call with Singapore was work related (oil & gas) not real estate related.

Do faucets work with sufficient pressure without leaking?

It has been vacant for 3 years, with gas and water off for the past year, but electric is on. 

I have an elderly couple that paid my other tenant ($5/wk...enough to cover gas) to mow their lawn as well.

thanks fellasI didnt even consider of adding a clause to the lease.I just find it difficult to arrive to an estimatimated cost for gas/electric.

Ours had been painted many times by the previous owners, (for 25years) but we gave up when the pinhole leaks began.

@Michael Ealy for my cash flow I did what most post say on here is what you profit so I will give an example of the place I was looking at and you let me know if I am doing it wrong because I thought I was doing it close enough.TriplexUnit 1 - $650Unit 2 - $650Unit 3 "My unit" - $800 2 roommates "plus I plan to put away into my personal savings account the mortgage payment"Garages - $110Total - $2210 and if you count my mortgage savings then the $929 would make it $3139Mortgage with Taxes and PMI - $929Water, Gas, Electric, Trash, etc - $195-200 monthly "The previous landlord has expenses from 2017-2018"Insurance - $55-60Estimated Repairs - $100-600+ monthly depending on what issues go wrong and what doesn't Cash flow $420-$1030 depending on monthly repairs and also not counting my savings for repairs as well?

One of the duplex's I have out there is an upstairs/downstairs unit so it takes coordination if there's a leak in the upstairs unit that goes down to the downstairs unit and neither tenant has made it easy for the contractor to get in either unit.

Gas, water, trash?