A long living room area and shorter kitchen dining area wrapping around a micro sleeping area: http://bit.ly/2qG6khCI would like to get a discussion going on apartment design.  

We built an additional bathroom, kitchen and dining room to the main house on the second floor to create a separate apartment.

Yes, you might be able to export a list of all of your expenses and income, but it will not organize them by property or in a elegant schedule-E report at year end.

She convinced my wife to get rid of or hide a lot of stuff, paint the kitchen and dining room the same color and spent $400 or so at Target on a few decorating touches.

If your cheap crappy postcard has a headline that grabs their attention, and a message that intrigues them enough to call, it will FAR outperform the most elegant hand written letter that says nothing compelling at all.

Below is a few pics of the site.This is the kichen..... we will be completely removing it and I stalling a new one.This is looking in to the entry and dining area that will be transformed into the 3rd bedroom.This is the view from the kitchen to the living room.This is the master bathroom that will also be redone.I will be posting the demolition pictures next week.

At 6500 ft^2 (the salon and dining room are almost 600 - 700 ft^2, the master suite may be larger), it is like you said, too big for a modern single family home, particularly when you figure ~4500 ft^2 of that space is  seven rooms and two grand halls.If I could get the City to work with me on the zoning, it could serve as a law office, investment house, or something of that nature ... but would still need to be made much more energy efficient  - who wants a 10 - 12K heating bill each year.

I remember she and I sitting around the dining room table at my parent's house, where I was living without electricity because they couldn't pay the bill, stuffing envelopes by candlelight so I could get rich quick.

I knew that and forgot to install another in the dining room to avoid the potential safety and inspection issue.Minor issues that would cause a "Pass with comments" (meaning fix before the next annual inspection) were:The kitchen ceiling fan does not spin. 

Doing a renovation where the living room, dining room, and kitchen are covered floor to ceiling with wallpaper out of the 70’s.What is the best return on my time; stripping the wall paper down to the drywall or removing the drywall and putting up new drywall?