They can usually get 2 bed in each room and can also convert shared living spaces into "rooms" as well. 

That then presents the opportunity to convert the building to a condo which could be more ideal. 

Remember that you can only get one home equity loan per year, you can only have one home equity loan on your home, and you cannot convert your home equity loan into a different type of loan, so choosing the wrong loan can be an expensive mistake that you cannot quickly fix.Time Factors: If you need money quickly, don’t forget the schedule for closing a home equity loan, and make sure you will have time to complete the process, close on the loan, and wait through the cooling off period before you have access to the money.

Would generally love to connect with anyone who has experience in the rent by the room model as this is my first time using this strategy.Thanks in advance :) I have extensive experience in CH and all of Cleveland, HOWEVER I would never rent room by room.

So I've been doing my own taxes in Turbotax for 20 years now (I only own 2 rental properties but both were BRRRs), and I finally got stuck on something and went to a CPA 2 years ago, and he reviewed my past 5 years of returns and pointed out that I had made multiple mistakes (incorrectly categorizing repairs vs capex, calculating basis and therefore depreciation wrong, failing to realize that certain expenses for a home converted to a rental property start being deductible the day the property was placed in service vs actually occupied, the list goes on). 

To deduct repairs and maintenance, they must be done after the property is converted to a rental.

What I have learned very quickly owning these properties is that you can make these work on paper to convert them into rentals when you do your analysis today, but HOA increases are unexpected and completely out of your control.

I can't tell you how many properties have units easily convertible from 1 bedroom to 2 bedroom units, units with favorable dimensional standards which can boost rents with no photos to showcase these attributes, assessment square footage that is not correct,  upgrades not identified in the marketing materials etc.

@Rob Ibarra Converting non restaurant space into restaurant space can be fairly costly from what I understand due to the need for larger than standard water lines to service the building and a general need for grease traps and other restaurant specific infrastructure.My first question around going from abandoned auto shop to kitchen is zoning, could you even get the use approved, and then are their any environmental factors in play? 

There was one instance discussed in the forums with a syndicator called Norada (you can search the forums for that name) where they not only stopped paying dividends, but also converted everyone’s capital to an equity position - which is code for “We don’t plan to give your money back unless we can survive to eventually sell the building.”