Here are the various problems: others have mentioned the ability to control the temperature and access the electrical panel 24/7 (those items just make sense).

Our homestead will likely include a main home, carriage house (guest house) with the possibility to build an additional guest houses as we hope to not only host our family and friends, but would also like to start a small bed and breakfast.What we bring to the table:- Real Estate Investing experience (I currently have 2 doors: 1 townhouse in Canada, 1 apartment in Italy)- Short-term property management experience (Canada/Italy)- Long-term property management experience (Canada)- Experience purchasing Italian real estate- Fluent in English/Italian (ability to translate)- Experience renovating using Italian building materials / systems- Trades: mechanical, welding (Him)- Successful entrepreneur.

Now, I can do a lot of things with the space, however, as it is dry, has a loading dock, is at least temperature controlled (might be climate controlled as the building has been used for document storage for a decade), and has a dry fire suppression system installed and working.

The look on our realtors faces were priceless - I had a couple blank contracts in my portfolio so we wrote it up at 4pm outside... almost freezing as the temperature is in the low 40's.  10 minutes of paperwork and the originals are at my abstract now.

I'm unfamiliar with building codes in Chicago but in Massachusetts where I do HVAC work we cannot allow the tank to be less than 120 degrees as below that temperature bacteria can grow in the tank.

Sheriff won't evict if it is below that temperature.  

Assuming your tenants pay for electricity, boom, they pay for heat, and they can have their apartment at whatever temperature they want.

Currently, the owner pays all utilities.Clearly, it's not ideal to only allow one tenant to control the temperature (which is what the current set up is).

Junior-Senior year I was lucky enough to get into a welding program where I learned how to fabricate and weld steel and other metals.

So I quit...that was my last job.I then started that "mobile detailing business thing" I thought of when I was welding and grinding on stuff in my parents garage 6 years prior.