I would look at turning it into a gas fire place with crush glass.  

They are also used when you are investing with other people in the same project.LLC will also increase your paperwork and bookkeeping, and make obtaining loan more difficult.As a whole LLC are great tools to use in real estate, but you need to understand first their pro and con as it is not the magic bullet solution for every situation.

I would not recommend it in a rental property.You need to use solid vinyl flooring that is 100% water proof.

From there if they meet your minimums I would go about verifying their employment and further evaluate their proof of income.

Although my property manager has given more than 24-hours notice, I have no proof that the tenant actually received the notice because he has not responded.

That said, I would like to explore a path to using Big Data (and even visual data tools like Tableau/QlikView) to disrupt this market....Does anyone have any proofs of concepts or any Lessons Learned to share?

. - Wish I had a magic bullet for ya.

I still have a day job, I'm a real estate broker and have been for 23 years, but currently specialize in Glass boxes in the skye in Downtown Chicago. 

True,i make no claim to be an iconic Creative investor of the dimension of a Kessler,but i do get his point:anything is possible if you dare to believe it possible.My seller,who is honestly,a congenial man,reassured me that he is open to doing business as long i could provide proof of funds.

Would you think that the HVAC side alone is enough to provide value to investors as a proof of concept?