In looking at the National Electrical Code, it indicates that bedroom, living room, and dining room light fixtures must be controlled by a light switch and not a pull chain.

I would not advise putting in the kitchen or dining area.

Typically along the lines of: cooking (meals are prepared or they have a dining room), cleaning (they don't have to clean their room/apt), bathing (if it is a fall risk/concern), and potentially laundry, etc.People often confuse this with a nursing home which it is not, or at least the level of care shouldn't be at a nursing home level.

You can learn a bunch and ask questions to people that might have allready dine it.  

If someone can figure out an elegant solution, $ can be made here.

There are 2 bed 1 bath units, the first two floors have large living room with fire places (not working and there are also large dining room and fairly spacious kitchens.

I get that your situation is different: I have thought about buying a motel like what you are looking at, and what I would do in that circumstance would probably be to (zoning permitting, etc.) put on an addition that includes a large common living room and a kitchen/dining space, and again rent to 1 large group at a time.

My point - while the CSI data is elegantly constructed, it is indeed very limited in scope and does not represent what's happening in all markets.

So I have a tenant that just moved out and their dog ate a hole in the dining room carpet. 

You job is to find an elegant way to solve the problem(s) without incurring too much extra work, cost, time or legal exposure.