I know it might sound petty, but I don't think it looks very nice when I include it when designing my logo, etc.

Then I would contact the owner and give my professional opinion of the damage, what caused it, what repairs are necessary, and who should pay for it.I recently had a two-car garage door with two broken panels because of bad design and age.

To add insult to injury, if you installed that equipment three or more years ago, be it a remote for a ceiling fan or a window AC unit, or whatever, the remote is custom designed to that particular model -- which they don't make anymore! 

You could then get a smaller HELOC for the 15% down and the rest of the debt is  on subject property, not primary residence.John's Question:  HomeStyle is limited to one unit homes for Investors true but there is another loan called EZ Conventional that is designed for 2 to 4 unit properties for Investors who will never live in them to buy and get rehab dollars in one 30 year loan.

I will be using C Corp, since S Corp is just the designation, and will be the only owner.I made my decision after reading a bunch of BP threads on the subject of LLC vs Corp, and I really liked a lot of what @Linda Weygant had to say in the threads below, in regard to corporations: https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/51/topics/625641-s-corporation-tax-scenarioshttps://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/51/topics/430130-s-corp-or-llc-for-flipshttps://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/311/topics/434237-why-do-investors-choose-llcs-over-s-corps?

If so, it may be a factor of drawbacks in building design.

Let me ask you this...IF I had placed the building in-service via short-term lease (5-months) to another business needing space while I pulled together final design plans for my renovations, would I have been able to make the Partial Disposition election for 2018?

"I have noticed that Tax exemption for real estate professional status"Not sure what you mean by tax exemption for RE professionals....As @Ashish Acharya laid out above, 'real estate professional' is a designation used to describe a treatment under IRC Sec 469(c)(7). 

Familiar yourself with any residential design guidelines for your area and the zoning ordinance.

You need to have less than 100k in Adjusted gross income to get the max up to 25k in deductible losses or you can qualify as a real estate professional designation.