It should be clearly expressed/defined, "tenant is to register and pay for x utilities."

If you need all three tenanted units empty in order to achieve market rents and be in the black, even one hold-out can screw up your plan.Outside of the City of LA, but remaining inside LA County, you are allowed to relocate tenants in order to perform a major renovation, which is defined as work that takes more than 30 days to complete.

Its in the B-B+ asset class range depending on how you want to define it. 

After a year, we were able to launch our offerings and have since really honed in and defined our brand.

As you develop these long term goals, you can define your real estate investing path.

We definitely plan on getting it in writing and having defined roles/tasks once we get to that stage! 

@John Warren can you define legal nonconforming?

Fortunately, real estate valuation methodologies are well defined and there’s ample sales data to quantify any acquisition these days.Buying decent properties in solid locations at a sensible price is pretty straight forward.

@Charles E Nielsen the first thing to do is clearly define your objectives and establish your criteria.

Once you establish well defined house rules , you need to be prepared to enforce them.