Apartment investing checked all of the boxes for me and I am focusing all of my energy on becoming an expert in this segment.

If the herky-jerky layout will cause a problem when you try to sell, you may just bite the bullet and take care of it now. 

I may just hold on to my percentage and just bite the bullet and pay the taxes on them.

Water "wasted" is not lost like energy that is wasted (leaking toilet water remains in the hydraulic cycle where as the light on in a room no one occupies is gone forever).

They completely over paid in the first round of FIT and MicroFIT, and in general have been causing energy prices to increase at ridiculous rates both due to bad policy and mismanagement.

However, I wasnt ready to let the deal die after all this time, money and energy had been put in to it.

I actually bit the bullet and purchased the list a few hours ago.

The bedroom work is also the cheapest, so bite the bullet and do it first.  

You should ensure that they are not only operational, but in today's energy efficient world know how antiquated they are compared to other newer'ish buildings, and what the cost is to upgrade or replace these systems. 

One of my tenants gave me a form from a non-profit here in the San Francisco Bay area offering free energy conservation measures to low-income tenants.