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

First, increase staff size.

(covid, historic rate increases, etc.)

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. 

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?

The 4% isn't much, but it's better than nothing and it means my security deposits increases with rent each year. 

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

Seeing the gradual dip in median sales prices and the uptick in days on market, it’s fascinating to think about how buyers are leveraging longer DOM properties to find deals.