If you are just getting started, good insurance may be the better play.Assuming you have a large portfolio, you know how to manage an LLC properly, are willing to take on the added paperwork and expense, and are not piercing the corporate veil by having mortgages in your name, here are my reactions to your proposals. 

It's directly manipulated by the Federal Reserve via quantitative easing, yield curve control, and short term manipulation of Fed Funds rate.Over the next 40 years, there will be a Minske Moment when people realize that (without reserve currency status, and the ability to counterfeit our own currency ad infinitum) the U.S Treasury is an objectively insolvent entity.

I haven’t started adding value to the deal yet What was the outcome?

I added Latchel to just a few of my properties to try it, but I quickly learned that 24/7 repair coordination is anything but.Every step of Latchel's workflow is painful.

I am considering converting the basement by installing an egress window, which would cost around $7,000, and adding wired smoke alarms.

Just recently we have also added Stessa's posting process. 

I don't use Buildium so I can't speak to what it can or can't do but owner's can sometimes be added on other platforms as co-hosts for the purpose of visibility.

Communication is challenging, most likely uninsured, but this is in-line with the budget.c) Keep searching for contractors, adding time to project and potentially costs.d) Buy scaffolding or rent scaffolding or a lift and demo myself for under $1,500, including dumpster.What would you do??

With a half point rate reduction by the Fed, our HELOC rate was reduced by the same amount, and we've begun the refinance process.

Adding fines for breaking those rules could help too, as long as it’s within the local guidelines.