I am planning to attend Sheffield Hallam University in September as I have got a conditional offer there (min 112 UCAS points which can be achieved by a BBC roughly)I have applied for a student loan and am going to open a new student bank account soon to take advantage of the interest free overdraft and other features which may help me in building my credit score.Any suggestions?

PLENTY of room :) Good luck PS connect with someone doing deals, LEARN apply what you learn, and do it. 

@Brian Van Pelt makes a great point that will that can often be applied to to friends, family, coworkers or anybody you have a meaningful relationship with as relationships can sour just as much or more than a potentially failed investment, which is often enough for a person to avoid helping loved ones when large sums of money are involved.That being said, since you're looking at the risk vs. reward in this scenario, it could be structured in such a way that definitely limits your downside and maximizes your upside. 

As far as repainting, oil prime and apply 2 coats of 100% acrylic top coat.

Find out what they do, how they do it, and maybe an idea may pop into your head about how you can apply their method to your own. 

Because the financing is different for buildings with more than 4 units, as you may already know, you can't really use a per-unit price on a 4-unit and extrapolate to a 5 or 6 unit :(Instead of looking for comparable sales, you usually end up having to apply a market cap rate to the net income (NOI) of the property, which appraisers call the "income approach".As for what's a "market cap rate", well that's about as much art vs. science as (in some way) choosing good sales comps are.For a B area of Providence I think you'd be safe using a 5% or 5.5% cap rate, but if it was an A area like the East Side you might want to go with 4% or 4.5%.You should also ask around as I certainly haven't done any market survey of cap rates.

Approximately $3.50 x 1200 = 2)  For all other impact fees applied by your city. 

Your thoughts on applying that directly to the principle to pay it down faster (I do not plan on keeping the property more than 10 years.

I cant pronounce half the names that apply.

The same doesn't apply to any potential gains.