if your removing all the cabinets replace by taking necessary drywall off, or all drywall if rough shape.

I will have a ton of my own cash sitting in 3 houses that I could better use to invest in other houses.Scenario B- Get a heloc on one or all three properties.

You can have a room or two with private bathrooms and charge a premium for those rooms I would advise you to do all males or all women, no mixing men and women.

There is no equal.For houses, there just aren't any that are reliable or all that helpful.

When you set out to buy-fix-and-hold a property you are taking everything on yourself from finding the right property in the right area, assembling a team to renovate it, putting up most (or all) of the cash to do so, and that assumes you have the experience and time and required to invest in the project.You might end up with a lower cost basis in the end, assuming everything goes well, but you take on all the risk to try and get there.So, you might be "off your rockers" thinking this way. :-)

Only bad thing is it makes my other deals feel inadequate lol.

They also had very good times there.These are very inadequate descriptions.

I use hard money instead of paying cash for the property, then I rehab, rent (or keep some tenants and just increase rent), refinance and hopefully pull out some or all of the cash I put down on them.

either way.. most landlords have problems because they are under capitalized and have in adequate reserves to weather a bad tenant.. mathematically of course max leverage is the greatest return.. 

Perhaps look into RUBS (Ratio Utility Billing System) and bill some or all of the utilities back to the residents.