I have my own machines in another similar building, and the collections are usually very consistent month to month. 

Interest savings in this comparison are essentially a wash, but the first position HELOC provides much more convenience, flexibility, and investing capability given that all your finances will run in and out of that HELOC and you'll have access to more funds due to the limitations of the backup funds you mentioned. 

looking back I got a decent deal but it took too long to close and I need to find a team for the long term to accumulate fourplexes or build them.I'm wondering if people involved are just washing their hands if my deal rather than grow from it.Emails from before closing were insane looking back on it. 

While the cleaning owners do not like the doc in pay, they know that it would come out in the wash at some point due to lost clients over quality.

-The niche, boutique brokerage is a great target because they are generally slammed with more business than they know what to do with, they generally are still using fax machines and rotary dialers, (i'm only half joking I still see @aol emails all over costar to this day) so it leaves ample opportunity with anyone that can use an crm a chance to add real value and grow the business in a measurable way.- These tend to be "assassin" type shops who are small teams of pretty elite operators, and they aren't bloated down with BS like the big CRBE's etc of the world, so you'll get exposed to more, you'll get exposed sooner, and they will generally be ideally with a niche industry or product type but will often have a ton of satellite deals they get which will get you cross industry exposure. 

Run an ozone machine between tenants and then let it clear out for a day before showings.

The SF protections would wash these people out.

Definitely learned on the back end that it was just a an up-sell machine.

Table, chairs, margarita machines, tents, moving dollies, and more.

Examples to kick it off: adding solar panels, vending machines, advertising space, allowing credit card rent payments w/ fee.