It causes me a few extra trips a year to reset a breaker, but I have to believe it makes the tenants more prudent about overloading if they know they have to call me to get it reset.Other than resetting the breaker, I can see no other good reason a landlord would allow tenants access to the basement mechanicals. 

The the other joker in that deck would be that if those duplexes are substantially identical and there is a sale to you at an obvious discount rate the IRS will be looking for a reason to find cost basis shifting.

Another reason I like apartment complexes any vacancy does not usually hurt you like it would in a residential multifamily place would.Some Private Lenders will also lend to you including any repairs but I understand the importance of using a Bank to get a "house hacking" loan and its low down payment.. 

The biggest reason to own it a different way is asset protection.

I think it’s perfectly reasonable to ask for one or the other.

The reason why we are on maximum yields is because the young generations need to save up to 40k to buy a property of 120.000 Euro.Real Estate is cyclic, there will be times where the yield of a house will be 4% others that will be 10%.

I’ve marketed “smoke free” reasonably successfully in the past but in my market with so few pet friendly rentals I’m not positive it would work.

For whatever reason it took my attorney longer than normal to handle it.

Reasonable pricing and pretty fast service.

(No, we were not scared we could be sued--anyone can sue anybody for any reason at any time.