Are you rubbing brains with the cream of the crop or the bottom of the barrel?   

I have a Keurig, and I provide one k-cup per guest with cream and sugar.

I will be able to shave off some expenses from the project by doing the design myself.After that, my DTI won't allow me to get a third property until I can show my landlord experience and rental income history.

I've been on site in NC with my 'competitor' (not really, we operate in a co-opetition type environment) and their 2015 permitted and 2017 deployed systems (on 8 solar farms in one NC county) rate shave and can/do address the 'duck curve' phenomonon.

Great work @Troy S.! Have

In it's own right something cool, but, it feels a lot like an ice-cream truck that's now covered in burger and taco menus. 

Then discuss what your chances are of seeing the total fine waived or at least reduced to their costs (for staff time) once the cited issue(s) have been corrected.

I've had buyers clean up a place to shave expenses.The thinking that you would be buying at 70% less repairs in my market is far fetched, if that's your plan you better be carrying a 300+K property so you can live off your minor repairs profits for that year as that's about how many deals you'd get that year.You really need to identify properties that can be improved to another level or change use or that will rent much higher than its carrying costs.I, like most, got into the thought of doing just about anything that came along if I saw any money in it or thought I could build a profit.

The cream rises to the top.  

I could have shave a couple of thousand off by not updating small things like toilets, ceiling fans, electrical updates but not much more than that.