Is this a thing? I'm considering making an offer on a multi-family.  This would be my first multi-unit purchase. The only problem is that it does not cash-flow due to the owner paying ALL utilities. I don't want to st...

You can keep it as a 3 and live in it however you want, but do not structurally alter a 3 into a 2 unless you want to lose future value and hamstring the property and pay to make the property less desirable.

I think I will take your advice and talk to the plumber too, then ask my manager if the terms of the tenant responsibilities need to be altered to be more specific regarding plumbing.

I'm already making progress with the tone of my dealings with tenants and contractors.I'm thinking of wearing a different hat when I have to adopt my landlord alter ego, like Walter White/Heisenberg.

But on day 46 the list is fixed, cannot be altered. 

Terms of who gets what will be set during the divorce; what she does now can alter that significantly.

With inspections, the inspectors I have had never go out of their way to find stuff outside of the immediate areas I am altering.  

I'm no ADA pro, but I feel like I remember reading in multiple books that landlords HAVE to comply with requests like this (as long as they don't significantly alter the property/structure) but all modifications are at the expense of the tenant.

Don't co-mingle your funds or use it as your alter-ego since there are sure ways to pierce your corporate veil. 

This must be equivalent to saying no State shall pass a law revoking, invalidating, or altering a contract.Pretty sure a lease is a contract.