I already stated my bitter OOS experience in my first post on BP.

Frankly, I would never do this for heat or electricity because you will end up with your tenants being bitter towards each other for leaving lights on... keeping their heat turned up, or something like that.  

The idea of losing $1,800 lives a very bitter taste in my mouth.UPDATE: Now the bank is telling me the only way I can close on this deal is to get a renovation loan from them.

I can understand why they are bitter.

It sounds as if he's lost everything already and is pretty bitter.

(can you tell I'm a little bitter today!!?)

The vision of creating this site is to rival Zillow, Redfin, Trulia, etc...

I got a job at one of your local rivals, DePuySynthes : ) I'm also new to real estate investing.

The majority of the violence occurs in a few specific neighborhoods where rival gangs have been in bloody turf wars.   

I have been a very active "lurker" and followed quite a few threads...many to their bitter ends.