It has its own separate heat & airconditioners with separate controls for each floor, but the utilities are all one electric, one gas and one water bill.

Don't start letting tenants control the dialogue from the start.

It covers utilizing neutral thinking to gain control.

Basement storage is very uncommon in this area and would be a continued nuisance for us re: pest control, utility replacement, and addressing the work we have planned on the building which includes structural work in the basement. 

The proposed legislation would disallow an IRA to own the LLC that is required to give the IRA account holder checkbook control.

To be a US trust must meet both the control test and court test (jurisdiction).

You have to give up some "control" and trust that they know what they're doing, including doing things differently than what you would do.

Also the political anti landlord atmosphere is now out of control.   

If you can't keep control of your personal finances, you are highly unlikely to succeed in real estate investing.

You can control the investments and be a fund manager for your IRA.Plans that offer checkbook control will be much better than hiring a 3rd party custodian to process transactions on your behalf.