granted I've only been doing this since 2021, but things are certainly picking up in our market as far as buyer activity in the past 2 weeks or so in a significant way that I know the data won't show yet but that you can feel.

Definitely pick Wisconsin.

On the other hand, if the tenant is required to hire a local company for trash pick-up, this house has a long, fairly steep driveway.

Before creating my LLC, I use to receive rent/utility payments via Zelle from my tenants. 

With HB25-1090 taking effect on January 1st, we have been working to incorporate previously separated utility billing into the monthly rent.

If you go a few months then its not as easy to get reimbursed for the cost and to just pick an arbitrary date to shut off their utilities.  

I have not run into issues over the years on utilities.

When you start utilities on the properties just purchased for STR purpose under an individual name but will be transferred to an LLC soon, is that better to wait the LLC to be done first then start the services, or turn them on as soon as possible to reduce the downtime to get ready and change the ownership to an LLC for the utility companies?

But yes, things to consider are utilities, drainage, environmental, etc. 

Just curious to know why you picked Mexico over the U.S.