What are the pitfalls of renting a non-legal space? 

And I have tools and some toys in the garage so I would need some extra garage space ... which an apartment may or may not offer.

I wasn't sure how to edit  this but things just went from bad to worse. tenant claimed she fell down the stairs and hurt herself due to the hazardous conditions of replacing the floor.

Hi Everyone, I'm really new to this space (of Real Estate investing) having just started a couple of months ago.

The purpose of the Multi-Family Residential district, also known as the R3 district, is to provide space for multiple family residential development commonly found in an urban environment.

Tuck that cash away and use it to convert the space into the single family home of your wife's dreams once you two decide the timing is right for a move.

generally speaking the HOW TO SELLERS in the real estate space all have a feeder event to sell their higher priced boot camp or in this case big dog..

The electrical on that one is split.For us, and the option without knowing any more I'd recommend is to : We found the easiest thing to do was to pay the bills yourself and simply build what you think is the average utility bills attributable to each space into the rent price.In terms of marketing, market the place at the lower so you don't turn away people and then negotiate you paying those bills (the increase in rent functionallyThat said, there are other options but of course they involve cost. 

Is that LVP flooring in the kitchen? 

The existing strip malls do fairly well and don’t see them going out of business any time soon so can’t really see anyone else moving into the local space.