They brought in mice, cockroaches, and spiders.

Details on the duplex:Price: $385kBuilt: 2012Size: 2674 sq ft (1333 each side). 2 story, 3B/2.5B each side w/ 1 car garage & driveway for both, fenced backyard both sides.Interest: 5.49%PITI: $2,698Current Rent: $1,350 but could be brought up to ~$1,600, maybe $1,700Yearly Property Tax: $8,340 (I don't pay any on my side while I live there so $4,170)Upgrades: Vinyl floor in kitchen of both units, new AC (central HVAC) on vacant unit, roof done 2016. 

It will be expensive as you'll need a meter socket, weatherhead, breaker box/load center in the unit and then all the circuits in unit three will need to be disconnected from the present box they go to and brought into the new load center.

Then I had another one where the buyer brought as is under the impression that legalizing would be easy and found out it was not ever allowed and a portion of the structure had to be demolished because it was built horribly and a hazard as built.  

Last night, I heard an inspiring story about a mom who brought her young kids along for a 45-minute drive to tour an investment property.

I have another one were I optioned 120 acres that just got brought into long term planning for chips act. paid 5 million for it and spend 10k a month negative..

The fact you brought this up on this board with this situation tells me that you are fairly new to renting by the room.  

@Richard Schubert- Yeah, I'm glad I brought the engineer out because 2 foundation contractors looked at it previously. 

And @Kory Reynolds brought up a good point about recapture of the section 179 deduction if your business use drops under 50% in a future year. 

I’ve had about a 60% turnover on units that were under and I’ve brought current.