If not, cut your losses, sell the home and learn from your first investment. 

When you do your first renovation, the last thing you want to do is to cut corners.

Treasuries will go "no bid" and there will be a collapse of confidence in both (i) the U.S. dollar, and (ii) U.S. treasury debt instruments [bills / bonds / etc].When this financial inflection point comes, you do not want to own assets who's values are directly tied and leveraged to the yield on U.S. treasury debt instruments (specifically commercial real estate where most market participants are max leveraged).

Up until now we have been using Evolve vacation rental to “manage” our properties and to cut a long story short, we are ready to take it on ourselves in order to scale our business.

Don't cut the corner on this one to save money.

Your expense ratio remains flat, and therefore doesn't really create much value in the deal.Compare your 2% rent and expense assumption to what most syndicators underwrite: 5% rent growth after an initial renovation bump; and 2-3% expense growth; and you get vastly different outcomes.As to whose assumptions more closely tie to reality is to be determined, but if you used assumptions more in line with what syndicators are using, I think you will find the return projections narrow dramatically, if not flip to SFRs.  

That way since there is a connection to the basement there is not issue with you crashing down there.If you don't want to do something like that, I would cut the basement off from the first floor and just rent the first floor, leaving you the basement to crash in when you want.Or see about getting the basement made into it's own separate unit now that ADU are allowed in Mass (although the law may not kick in until the new year)Also your town may now require a certificate of occupancy to be issued before you can rent it out and they may have something to say about this basement connection anyway.Just my two cents as they say.

My hands are a bit tied here. 

I do see risk of tenants using the ordinance a way to extend their termination date through tieing it up with paperwork.

Total still owed $13,600 (rent, late fees, legal fees) and $550 for the locksmith.Place reeks of pot, she had her adult son, who by the paystubs left behind only made $152 a month and spent his days laying on the couch (which reeked of pot) smoking and playing x-box (abandoned and power supply cut up).