A client of mine in Maryland added smart home features to their rentals and boosted rents by 12% with minimal investment.

But, I'd like to focus only on value-adding renovations (for rentals of course). 

Direct mail, SMS, door knocking, Facebook ads?"

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.

One option might be to explore adding air purifiers or filters directly into the system to help mitigate odors.

Note that legal and transfer costs are not deductible but can be added to your cost basis.

Richmond certainly would have some potential in pulling trades from, but coming from Lexington, you might face an added trip charge on top of the service provided.Over the past few years, rents have increased nationwide.

On buy-and holds we usually replace all the plumbing with pex, no matter what, because galvanized has a life expectation of about 60 years, so I usually take the sooner than later approach.Stick with hard money, like Mach1 or or MKE hard money (Scott Lurie) as they will not leand on a deal that does not pencil out, so you have the added benefit of someone experienced looking over your numbers.

In the city or more urban neighborhoods though it's definitely more commonplace.I've added off street parking behind a property off an alley like you said at least a handful of times.

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