Tons of flippers and developers use them in the area and have nothing but good to say about them.

Louis a couple years ago, there seemed to be a lot of development and rehabs in the Cherokee st area, which is a good sign, but do you see this trend continue?  

Without knowing what amount of time you have available as well as more personal information about your circumstance, no one can give you a definitive answer but I will give you a general answer that will hopefully help but with the understanding that you could have circumstances that make the following useless or harmful to you.In general, low interest rate debt should not be paid off if doing so uses funds that can be used to create/generate income and/or equity that exceeds the funds being used to pay down the mortgage. 

This "Face-To-Face" knowledge and interaction becomes important, if any "sticky" issues develop during the transaction. 

I'm developing a multi-family community from scratch, and hired a local civil engineer firm for site work (grading, erosion control, drainage plan, etc.) design.

I still work full-time as a pharmacist and have developed a good rapport with my colleagues and physicians and constantly talk about what I do in multifamily real estate.

It's the Army's future development HQ.

I need to develop my knowledge base, learn how to evaluate deals and make quality offers.

I just stumbled upon a company that has developed a sales funnel system and they seem to have a good product for lead generation and conversions. 

Unless it was found as a typical expense and included in the lease development stage , unfortunately, the owner would probably have to incur that expense upfront and slowly be paid back when new leases were made through higher rent and was able to be incurred as new language in the new lease and understood by the new tenant about who is responsible (at least partially) for that or any other possible capital expense.With regards to the problem stated about using the landlord's panel, you might gain some additional wattage is by possibly downsizing some of your breakers.