My suggestion would be to cap your utilities at a certain amount and have Tenants pay anything over that amount.That will help you manage your expenses, and also allow Tenants to gage their usage each month, and make adjustments if they don't want to go over the allotted amount.As far as collection, provide the bill showing any overages and just have them pay for it along with their rent. 

The time allotted on the initial contract was ample time for the buyer to close.

The time allotted on the initial contract was ample time for the buyer to close.

Quote from @Don Miller: The following is not to express any level of happiness or unhappiness with the build:Received change orders totaling $14,970 for 18 additional loads of fill dirt over allotted amount in contract (fill dirt arrived in December 2022), 7 loads of septic sand over allotted amount, and rock excavation at the septic site. make sure to ask for the tickets. if they are putting 6 yards of soil in a single axle truck you are getting ripped off.

Not all VA loans are owner-occupied as the VA gives you an allotment so you can have multiple properties with VA loans depending on what they clear you for.

The appraisal district shortly thereafter corrected the tax allotment “anomaly” between the two lots, but the investor never made a tax payment and eventually lost the lot to a tax foreclosure.  

You could use a HELOC, but with VA loans you have an allotment so you can get loans on more than one home depending on how much bandwidth they give you.

I did so in the time allotted as specified in the agreement and now I find them sending me a bill for $19,999.81.

So if it was switched to a TIC with 12 members, if they sold 1 property for 3 million would each of the 12 get a  250K allotment ?

Id definitely allot yourself an extra couple weeks though for your calculations.