You should advise the roommate that they are welcome to submit a request for accommodation but unless they have a plan that would alleviate your symptoms their request will likely be denied.

If you aren't planning to try to resell, you won't risk having to take a capital loss.

Be careful about noting anything regarding these items. 

Hoping I can get around $1200 renting to traveling nurses and professionals According to my research on FurnishedFinder, this is reasonable, and I'm planning to list June 1.

It definitely helped us game plan how to fix this.

Originally I had planned to get the required permits from the city, but I had a contractor that I work with recommend to not go through the time, money, and headache of the permitting process since it's my primary residence and I can most likely "get away" with it.

I plan to buy a duplex soon to begin my real estate journey.

My husband and I are the employers and we have employees in our plan with their own accounts.

@Paul Novak landlords MUST be careful how involved they get in domestic disputes, etc.Tenants always want to dump their problems on the landlord!

Don't box yourself into a rate, but yeah, use the equity carefully and slowly if you don't have other savings to start your journey on other properties.