As a college student working part time, I have been able to identify my spending habits and reduce them considerably.

Taking a cash out is a liability (bigger loan) that will not reduce the amount of gains you had on the property.

Female did the talking and we hit every NOD in the 2 mil MSA .. this amount of time and energy produced about 2 to 3 deals a month..

I have my energy assessment scheduled with Berkshire Gas to start the Mass Save program process to try to qualify for that grant.

"A city proposal to require tracking of municipal and commercial energy use has the potential to help city government, private building owners and tenants save millions of dollars, reduce emissions by thousands of tons and cut water usage by billions of gallons in less than a decade."

This would serve to reduce the headache of the bookkeeping by having all transactions consolidated and outside of your personal transactions.

If your goal with investing is to help offset expenses a break even with you living there would be fine, you are able to live there by reducing your living expense. 

Meaning that I would probably have to reduce the square footage to 234SF which seem to become rather small at that point!

Any form letter I can use stating it needs to be cleaned up for repairs and before a new lease will be offered.Trying to get them to clean up is a waste of time and energy.

You should also purchase double pane windows for energy efficiency as well.Fixed panel windows this size will be special order (not stocked at box stores).