Is this a thing? I'm considering making an offer on a multi-family.  This would be my first multi-unit purchase. The only problem is that it does not cash-flow due to the owner paying ALL utilities. I don't want to st...

Focusing on real estate in law school must translate in some ways towards investment properties? 

You can keep it as a 3 and live in it however you want, but do not structurally alter a 3 into a 2 unless you want to lose future value and hamstring the property and pay to make the property less desirable.

I think I will take your advice and talk to the plumber too, then ask my manager if the terms of the tenant responsibilities need to be altered to be more specific regarding plumbing.

I'm already making progress with the tone of my dealings with tenants and contractors.I'm thinking of wearing a different hat when I have to adopt my landlord alter ego, like Walter White/Heisenberg.

Within the next year, ill be doing work to the property laying down some sweat equity.My question is this: In everyone's experience, has nicer (not the cheapest builder-grade stuff you can find) materials translated to attracting a more qualified and responsible tenant?

I've seen guys in my office have success wholesaling residential around the country and I just get frustrated because it doesn't translate into Commercial.

But on day 46 the list is fixed, cannot be altered. 

If you are speaking of equity, as the face value of a single property equity grows, it loses money...not gains it.The good thing about REI is the potential exponential gains you can make with it, when you focus on the short run (NOT like day trading short), and how those short exponential gains translate to long term gains, as long as the short term gains "keep on truckin'".

Terms of who gets what will be set during the divorce; what she does now can alter that significantly.