There is no right answer of course, just wondering how today’s participants in real estate view this transaction.  

I was interested if anyone has gone through a similar situation or have any suggestions for prevention.

Hi @Seth RoselliniI would suggest you match with an investor friendly agent and they might be able to connect you with someone who they have done business with in the past. 

We met with a real estate agent, who suggested that we sell it "as is" which may earn us $200,000+.

Does anyone have any suggestions on best practices for finding these properties?

I'm wondering at what point from a price perspective does it make sense to go with new vs used?

Any advice, suggestion or feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Any suggestions of lenders for something like this would be appreciated!

I wondered if during the day when the people they were there to visit were in class or busy, maybe they'd like to exercise, but I think you're right.

However, we do not want the tenant to pay for the electricity that we use.I contacted Edison and the County to see if we could install an additional electric pole to have a separate meter, but they said it is not allowed to have more than one pole for our property.I found a sub-meter on Amazon, and I wonder if it is allowed to install one on the electric pole, so our tenant can see how much energy we have used.