Being a landlord is often a wake-up call, you might find out quickly it’s not for you, or you might catch the real estate bug like many of us did and will end up finding your next deal sooner than later.The big advantage of renting out your primary first is that you get hands-on experience managing a rental before putting a lot of money into another property.

I'm not sure other than the local electric company who is exclusive in that area.

Check your electric is sufficient to handle the new units and if those units would be on tenant electric you would need to compensate them until you were at lease renewal as they have a utility included and you would be changing to non-utility included which shifts the cost to the tenant.

The most they will pay when the tenant must pay gas, electric, and water/sewer/trash is $732.

When I first used money transfer there were some bugs.  

I had to get as-built plans drawn up, submit to LADBS, deal with plan check corrections, then bring everything up to code (electrical, plumbing, egress windows, smoke/CO detectors, etc.).

If you had electrical issues, get a letter from an electrician showing you have pro-actively replaced any potential hazards.

.), and what the infrastructure looks like (sewer, water, electric) because those systems can make or break the deal long term.

Some utilities stay with the house (eg water if the tenant doesn't pay, you get stuck with the bill), others go with the tenant (eg electricity, phone). 

The home inspection came back with only a few "major" issues (plus a bunch of tiny ones as all inspections have) - the main ones were a couple of small leaks in the bathroom and kitchen plumbing, what appeared to be mold growth in the crawl space, cloth wiring on the electrical, and the water pressure was too high for the older pipes (1950's house) and some of the HVAC lines had some tears in them underneath the house.