Nate @Nate Marroquin   You can use the income from your tax returns on the current rental adding back your paper loss (depreciation) and add back the mortgage interest, property taxes, home owners insurance deductions on your tax returns. 

Added brand new cabinets and granite countertops.

total return from an RE investment includes value added, appreciation, tax benefits, equity pay down, and the cash flow. 

If you are calling the licensed person off the radio AD a lot of money.

This may provide low cash flow up front but it is a way of scaling if you are good at adding value and then trading up that value.

I manage a small rental portfolio that I am slowly adding to, and also have a few flips going at all times. 

Typically this means they will take longer to close, may not have all the information for the companies they work with, and most hard money brokers get their money by taking an existing product and adding extra points to pay their fee.What is your investor success rate?

I did delist the ad and relisted in approximately 4 hours , to my surprise, the days got reset .

(Previous rent was $1,300 but we're about to put in a brand new kitchen from the studs, new flooring throughout the house, new furance, adding A/C, etc).So do we just pay for it all upfront and mostly drain all of our savings, or do I let the rent pay for it and utilize our other savings to get a second property this spring/summer to increase our cashflow? 

They are using rules to add multiple ADUs.Here is a list of why adding a single ADU in dingle family  zoned areas in my CA market is typically a poor RE investment:1) The value added by the ADU addition is often significantly less than the cost of adding the ADU.