I gave the option for all tenants to pay $15 extra a month for use of the machines(costs about half as much as a laundromat in the area) and 3 out of 5 of my units opted to pay the fee via a lease addendum.The problem I'm running into is that the storage room is not being kept locked, and one of the tenants(for good reason) is complaining that the door is either being left unlocked or propped open.Now, I've looked into coin operated machines, and they cost about 3x what the standard machines cost, and they have HORRIBLE reviews for the low end models.

Have it lock and unlock certain times etc. 

I disagree as we were never provided a key to that lock, and whether it was by accident, mechanical failure or otherwise we never had a means to unlock that door.I understand the argument if we had lost a key or we're told no key existed on move in (although in latter case should have been rectified if known problem.But I, as a landlord, would not hold my tenants responsible for something they were never given.What say you?

Being good to one investor can unlock the door to 10 investors 

It may have been left unlocked, so the person responsible is whoever forgot to lock it.

Not sure what Jake's going to do, but if I were exclusively a SFR investor, about to unlock 75% of my equity in my 12 paid for homes, I'd go shopping. 

That is simply another form of debt instrument.  1031 would come into play if you were going to sell your properties to unlock that equity.  

Again me, it pains me that you had this experience w/ us and if we would have been able to get your domain unlocked on Godaddy (which again, we've never seen that and don't have control over) your site would have been up fast and you'd be on your way diving into the tools Carrot offers, diving into our weekly Coaching Calls, etc.

I'm hoping to find a bank that would be willing to let us apply together as co-applicants so I can unlock some (pretty significant) equity in my home.

I would probably leave the basement door unlocked or allow them to lock the door on their side.