Or other configurations that might achieve best rental rates.

A business partner owns a 10,000sf floor of a historic building currently configured as an office.

I have spent a good amount of time and configured it.

Sales force is expensive but it can be configured to do almost any possible thing that you need it to do.

One option would be to rent it by the room to three young professionals (or even a couple)...if you rented it by the room to three people, you'd probably be able to get more than what you have it listed for...if you rented it to a young couple, you could probably still get 1600ish (market the extra bedrooms as an office for each of them).Another option would be to re-configure the functionality of the house--turn it into a 2 bedroom 2 bath...if you did that, now instead of a cramped 3/2, you have a spacious 2/2 that would be great for a single parent with one kid, a young couple, or two housemates (each of whom would get their own bathroom, which is a huge selling point if you're renting to housemates)....the downside of this is the extra work, and also the fact that it could reduce the value of the property if you decide to sell...  

I often assist REI and property owners solve spacial problems, re-configure interiors or conversions/additions. 

Are you asking how do you know when to use meters in each plumbing configuration or just use a RUBS system?

There's ZERO downside in asking; there's likely to be some deal configuration that would make both parties happy!

Those are mainly what I’m seeing in that price range, bed/bath configuration, and square footage in the Fayetteville area.

Broadly speaking, I'm looking for guidance for hardware and configurations?