House hacking can reduce living expenses but may limit roommates or share space.

If you have one vacancy in a fourplex, it is only 25% vacant.With that said, people are killing it in the single family space and specialty property.

And they had taken the kitchen cabinets apart and burned them in the fireplace for heat.....I salvaged some and painted over the burn marks, didn't look half bad....ya can't make it up, right?

I know very little about legal precedent but I'd expect the major meter manufactures (selling into the utility space) to be well incentived to challenge these items best they can, and they have money.Here are the issues, and the reasons that the difference between an air forced system and a boiler/hydronic system are not meaningful for this discussion (ie efficacy issues of sub metering exist for either when method of measurement is measuring heat at point of delivery):In either case, the blower (or pump for a boiler) is the method of 'moving' either air (central air) or water/glycol or equivalent (boiler etc). 

She's a wonderful person and is successful in the STR space in Pittsburgh.

Given that the industrial market is softer than the prior few years, I intend to buyout/wait until current leases expire and leverage the space into self-storage. 

For illustration purposes, it's quite normal to acquire a mix use building consisting of 9 residential units + 1 commercial space for less than a 9 unit multi-family building would trade in the equivalent location because the commercial space is an automatic disqualifier for many investors.

For those of you that are more experienced in this space, would you change your financing approach based on this new information?

You can search for their NMLS # as well, but in the private money/hard money space there are grey areas in certain states as to whether or not you need to be licensed.

About 1/5th of the livable space would be rented out.