Personally If you like your current residence and hope to stay there long term I would forgo major improvements on my primary and use all investment savings to make you more money and cash flow. 

You may have to search a bit for the right contractor or engineer - sometimes I see one solution dominating in an area - "that is how we always do it" 

I started my career with the renovations team renovating the houses we buy, and with the property management company working with our residents and our maintenance teams.

Give me the horse and buggy vs a self driving car with immature software and sensors any day.My point is you should use as much technology as you can to make your life easier without going beyond its limits, and in the meantime always be on the lookout for new solutions that solve problems without creating new ones.

If you have a few single family rental homes and are looking for a way to streamline leases, applications and rents, maybe rentredi is the right solution, but if you have a multi unit property or any serious management needs, look elsewhere. 

There are hundreds of hard money lenders out there, ultimately I'd work with someone who has time to focus on ensuring you get a tailored mortgage instead of a cookie cutter solution.

(August 2022)Single-family residence buy & hold investment.Current Value Estimate: $410,000 Purchase price: $345,000 Cash invested: $5,000

Investment Info:Single-family residence fix & flip investment.

Investment Info:Single-family residence buy & hold investment.

I'm all about finding problems to solutions and figuring out how to make something work rather than simply conceding that it cannot work.