you can separately meter the units and have them pay water as a way to cut your expenses. then I would make sure the exterior would draw the eye and interior focus on the money areas (kitchen and baths). functionality of the units is another route to take on the interior.

If all goes as planned on the numbers of MHP investing I plan to scale it up significantly so I want to measure twice, cut once on the software.   

Cut your losses now.  

No.... charge people to become trainers to teach your system, then take a cut of their profits.

His solution to start with is to cut all of the finishes that we added ($21000ish).

Cutting corners  can come back and bite you in the butt.

Any way you cut it, the deal made sense, and the returns were going to be high.

If the loss occurred in 2017 it's a lot more clear cut.

Im thinking its the responsibility of my tenant to get out there (or hire someone) and cut it and drag to the curb.

@Delmas Edwards You can get a plumber to run a snake up the drain that has rotating cutting blades that will cut out the roots.