Since I will be attending graduate school upon acquiring this first deal, I'm looking to find more of a turnkey property to both have experience with a first deal and also to utilize a creative method of paying for rent during school, I just won't have the time that I'd like to do hefty renovations.Any and all suggestions would help!

That would have avoided transfer taxes (not selling 50% or more in 1 calendar year) and avoided obtaining new financing, new title ins, lenders ins, appraisal, assesments, changing utilities over, etc.Alas, the 6 partners couldn't all agree.

Major things would be foundation, total rewire, major plumbing issues, structural issues, box gutters, utility line issues, large scale brick replacement/repointing, etc.

I look forward to meeting new people and learning the industry.

They identified that the banking industry has a hole here, and decided to fill that niche.

Any utilities installed? 

I found this on meetup.com... seems to have resources for Charlotte, and TON more for other industry specific groups that are local. https://www.meetup.com/CharlotteREIA/

No more passing utility costs directly onto your tenants.

I hope you all the best in this great industry, and any advice/tricksandtips would be helpful.

The bank is none the wiser and it creates problems in the banking industry.