I left after one night and stayed in a hotel because it was uncomfortable and I felt that the host was completely disregarding the privacy of her neighbors, if not her local zoning ordinances.Your neighbors have three primary fears:  1)  A fear of a compromise in their privacy and quiet enjoyment of their own homes, 2) A fear of a decline in the values of their own homes because you let yours start looking like a trailer house, and 3) Ted Bundy being a guest one night.Probably the best thing you can do is to go and actually meet the neighbors, shake their hands, assure them that you are going to keep the property top notch at all times, you are going to carefully and meticulously screen your guests out of respect for your neighbors, and, most of all, FOLLOW THROUGH and be a good neighbor.  

A few months ago when the madness around covid started, when several of our tenants started calling to express concerns over making rent payments and we started growing concerned about our ability to make our mortgage payments - forbearance suddenly looked like a pretty good safety net.We obviously spent the time to call each lender, made sure all of our loans were backed by freddie/fanny and that there would be both no credit hit for entering into forbearance and that there would be no lump sum payment required at the end (our primary fear back when the rules were fairly cloudy)...so we proceeded.We also have a few loans that we thought could allow some flexibility, and tried to refi in order to pull money out so that we could have more padding and get ourselves out of forbearance. 

It sounds like you MAY have been postponing a (legal) confrontation with some tenants due to fear.  

That was when the stock market was depressed and there was a lot of fear. 

In fact, vacancy and tenant damage are two of the largest fears of most investors.

My fear is that for some reason it won't be reclassified back as a multifamily, or that during the assessment it will uncover some other thing requiring costly improvements.

I feel a bit overwhelmed jumping into real estate investing(even though I know this is what I’m going to do for the rest of my life) I just have a lot of fear about diving in with the first deal.

Its a mixed bag but you will have the benefit of government paid most of the rent,  and the tenant at least will have the fear of losing their subsidy to help keep them in line.   

If you have a good reason to go to a location don’t let the fear of leaving things behind stop you!

My wife and I have been interested in RE investing for some time but have stopped ourselves due to the overwhelming fear that comes with going into the unknown.