@Gary FareYour question, Gary, touches on at least 3 separate issues.1.

The advantage is the professional touch to acquiring new tenants.

I am wondering if that is accurate or perhaps he is out of touch with real estate taxes.

I would recommend that you stay in touch with the tenants throughout the divorce proceeding and negotiate the best terms for your self regarding their lease obligations, which can remain in effect in spite of the divorce proceeding. 

Yes regarding the vanity, but most handymen aren't licensed & insured and my building needs proof of insurance before anyone can touch my kitchen. 

Lamy Aldophe you say your like East Cleveland and you think the area will improve but if the local people who live their on a daily basis and have a pulse of what is going on will not touch the area I doubt it is improving that much.

I have tried with two smaller lenders(National Bank of Arizona and OneAZ Credit Union) and they have both dragged it out for several months before deciding they wouldn't do the loan for what I perceived to be fairly silly reasons(Management didn't like that the tenant had only been in for 1 year, Management didn't like that the structure used to be a residence, management didn't like that 3 years ago I took a loss in a completely unrelated business etc.)I am hoping that someone out there has had some success purchasing or refinancing commercial property like this in AZ and can put me in touch with someone who actually completes deals like this.

The original linked property was a great learning point: the agent repeatedly indicated he was unable to get in touch with the owners to consider my offer, which was competitive enough that it should have triggered a counter. 

You can run it by a local plumber, but unless they know you they may not be interested in coming in and touching work you started.

One of the podcasts, I forget which one, somewhere in mind 2016 touched on section 8.