For furnishing short- or mid-term rentals, finding the right balance between stuff that looks good, but which also offers solid durability and keeps your budget in check can be difficult.If your budget is your driving factor with your design decisions, I'd start surfing on Google image search or Pinterest - find a picture of a finished room that you like, and then reverse engineer it from products on Amazon and other similar budget-friendly sources.

AI will be able to replace all repetitive labor jobs first and then more complex jobs. 

I own rentals in Colorado and my lease DOES cover pro-rated rents, replacement tenants, etc.

When we've sold, lots of buyers want it replaced even if it's got some life left on it. 

In the first year, I replaced 5 of 12 water heaters.

to be clear - you won't 'cash flow.' but you could replace a preposterous rent payment with a preposterous mortgage payment. 

The units won't have HVAC system due to the cooler climate but because of the tightness of the home i.e <3 ACH, I actually need an ERV so I don't kill my tenants due to C02 or VOC poisoning.The problem is ERV filters need to be replaced every 3 months for all 4 or 5 units.

Contact a local civil engineering firm , they know all the players .

Not as much as multifamily but still more than STNL single tenant or 2 to 4 tenant type retail center properties.The larger centers they live or die by the anchor tenant so really have to know if that tenant owns or lease the space, when it was last re-imaged inside and out, and what sales they do per sq ft year over year and how they have been trending.Larger retail centers have defaults from smaller tenants with covid right now to work through so offering should have reserves built in for some not making it so buy in cap rate on existing NOI might go down in the short term as tenants are lost and tenant replaced.

(heloc or refi)I am an engineer by trade, and own my own comapny (AHAE Designs Inc).