Increasing job growth and a strong economy brings an ideal investment in these markets.

Separately, the government increased the money supply by 40% with massive government stimulus and that drove the cost of everything way up (labor, materials, everything).

What would you do from here, pay them off sooner to increase the cash flow, or keep leveraging? 

If you see utilities increasing, is there a way that you can push this on to the tenant?

It establishes a base that's $40 lower, which all future rent increases are based on. 

By adding the 3rd bedrooms, we were confident that it would increase rents and our valuation considerably.

How about realizing that when you use the current property taxes of a property you are buying to calculate your per door profit that the following year your taxes will reset to what YOU paid for the property and will likely significantly increase your tax expense - which can take you from a positive cash flow to a negative cash flow on a low cash flow property… now you are paying your tenants to live in the property every month out of your W2 income  hoping for an appreciation play until rents hopefully increase.I could go on and on.  

Would we see increased cross-border transactions and a surge in property investment opportunities?

So I dont counter with a % I Counter with a dollar amount and the buyer see's exactly how much that is and when on my homes that are 750k and 2% is 15k I counter at 10k flat fee.. agents get it start to howl but the buyers are like whats the issue your making 10k thats great money :)  Interesting development in Oregon to increase buyer agent commission visibility.

Airbnb has some new listing discounts which increases your visibility, did you see that?