I know this is new construction, but everything that is new today has a useful life, so if you plan on holding long term, reserving for new roof, HVAC, appliances, etc is typically worthwhile.Not sure of your design, but if you are building these with any common areas, you will likely have a "house meter" for the common area electric.  

A few reasons for this, but the most common is tied to the currently high cost of land and development compared to the rents that can be achieved.

It’s very common for investors to use these to buy rentals.

Once you are tenants in common then you can sell properties and each of you can choose to do a 1031 or take the cash for the % of your respective sales.  

I just renewed my SAM.gov status and am seeking to apply to some of the listed leasing bids, but wanted to understand more on whether it's common to acquire them as tenants through subleasing, informing the owner & getting authority to lease, or I'd have to own the commercial/residential property out-right?

If you truly are as liberal as you say, then you have a very high degree of common sense.

The structure is most commonly called a "ground leasehold improvement exchange" and it's the very deepest end of the 1031 pool. 

Pretty common practice here. 

City can only pass regulations that apply to all, and they write them for the lowest common denominator which as I am intimately familiar in this subject trust me it was pretty darn low. 

You need one or the other, preferably both.Since you don't have any money, you'll need to focus on knowledge.Besides building your network, you can also start looking at properties to find market inefficiencies you can flip to an investor with funds for a fee.Wholesaling is the most common form of this, but you can do this in several different ways.Also, what happened if you found a "tired landlord" and got them to accept your offer of 0% down, but $x/month payment to take their problem off their hands via seller financing?