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

Hindsight Critique•Continue to build relationships to increase deal flow•Property manager (Mercer Hughes) is critical to completing renovations and quick tenant placement•Continue to build relationships with private lenders and personal investors•Have cash available to make quick competitive offers Did you work with any real estate professionals (agents, lenders, etc.) that you'd recommend to others?

Managing rentals isn’t for everyone, especially after dealing with bad tenants, challenging property managers, and increasing costs.

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. 

(covid, historic rate increases, etc.)

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.

First, increase staff size.

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