The property is being managed by us, so at moment we don't have any external management company

Same issues if I try to access the website from my phone using the internet (external to the app).

Due to the nature of my wife and I's work schedule I think I am going to have to rely on external property management at first.

Investors need to spend some time on appraisal sites instead of picking up bad habits on opinions of how to evaluate value, if you have functional obsolescence (FO) or external obsolescence (EO) issues concerning the subject, you certainly want to factor in those aspects to your valuation.

You can choose your tenants ( hand pick them) discard any for any reason..2. when you sell you get the owner occ 250 or 500k exclusion..

Even if the winterizing was not 100%, with a heated unit below, there should not have been any freezing within the unit (other than possibly on an external wall).

Claims of, or even accurate historical, higher CAP rates of an owner may indicate lower expenses, differed maintenance, higher rents from older lease obligations, unusual low vacancies due to external factors subject to change in the market, accounting differences on an accrual basis, changes in depreciation from capital improvements or administrative factors. 

I have one of those coin operated timers from a campground shower and have thought about adapting it for use as an external hose bib.

I like the idea of added external crawlspace access for sure.That's a good suggestion Ryan.  

Ultimately, you are going to end up closing the loan with the lender you want... if there are external factors like bank relationship, or ease of communication, they will factor in.As for the family member... give them the heads up now.