If no one is there to say the heater \quit working when you check in on it it may have frozen up or burst a pipe and pumped 50,000 gallons on water into the basement. 

The house is in a desirable neighborhood in Massachusetts but was built in the early 1900's and has been abandoned for about 5 years with leaks and significant water damage and likely to have mold.

The house meter is for consumption not specific to the individual units...such as exterior lights, power to the washer and dryer, sprinkler system, outside hosebib etc...If existing water lines are behind walls, under slab, it is going to be impossible.Also, if you separate electric but not water, and your water heater is electric, make sure you are not supplying hot water to unit B on a branch of a line powered by unit A's electric.

I can't see why not unless you have water, sewage and electric hook ups and maybe propane tanks.

Water main is out, or worse, bad water, you may have folks pull out on you.Community emergencies, gas main blow up, rail road derails, mandatory evacuations, while these things usually only last days, it can change opinions of some tenants to leave.Then, if your building does get cleared for an issue, will you have new occupancy inspections?

I browsed over a few downtown water front condo from the picture at Queen Anne neighborhood.  

Nice job Brian.re: Once you have an RMLO lined up to handle the applications and origination and have nailed your terms...market away.Thanks for the kind words, Hattie, and I love your posts btw, but as far as marketing on Craigslist or in print for Owner Financing buyers,  I would caution you not describing the exact terms of any owner financing and have something vague, like"Owner will finance either owner carry or lease to own, there is some qualifying, please contact NAME RMLO # PH#" for an application or link to a 1003 app like thishttps://www.dropbox.com/s/xd2qn5djkf6z15v/Mortgage...To act in the capacity as marketing for a financing arrangement without proper licensing can get you in FEDERAL hot water.

I also stressed to the broker my major concern was regarding the plumbing and I received no disclosure of any deficiency, past or present from the seller.As it turns out, it was discovered last week,mjust before I planned to close, that the seller had indeed made some major repairs to the plumbing, including sewer and fresh water lines connecting the chiller and boiler.

It was in the crawl space and once we cut a hole in the floor we discovered it was under water.

Brian's efforts are targeted to invoke interest in particular strategies he uses, when he gets those types of leads he can the identify the strategy to use and lead the prospect to the water.