You need to adapt to a business way of thinking.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.

As times have changed, we've adapted and continue to try and zig when others zag. 

Work begins at last on long-planned redevelopment of old millChronicle Mill, Belmont, NCFrom the CBJ:Work begins at last on long-planned redevelopment of old millThe adaptive reuse of the old Chronicle Mill in Belmont had already been in the works for nearly seven years when the Covid-19 pandemic put a planned groundbreaking for the project on hold last spring.

An improvement adds to the value of property, prolongs its useful life, or adapts it to new uses.Some examples of improvements include: a new deck, storm windows/doors, wall-to-wall carpeting, duct work, and insullationAs you noted, even items that would usually be treated as repairs and maintenance are treated as an improvement if incurred while "getting the property ready for use."

Repairs are typically considered as maintenance that keeps your property in good working condition, while improvements add value to the property, prolong its life, or adapt it to new uses.

So we are on the same page, my definition of a dependable passive income is below.Inflation Adapting - Your rental income increases faster than inflation, so you have the additional dollars you need to maintain the same lifestyle.Income Reliability - You continuously receive income with minimal interruptions in good and bad economic times.I could go into details, but here I will only mention inflation adapting.Inflation AdaptingInflation continuously erodes the buying power of the dollar.

Being adaptable is important. 

If things change over a hold period just adapt.

New technology can be adapted very quickly when there are regulatory changes that's accepting the new reality, for example, the acceptance of GPS to be used by everyone between 2005-2010 this help google maps,yelp,apple maps a lot ... so we can track business in real-time ; the acceptance of local gov. to accept digital signature, so yes Docusign is extremely useful.