Love the drive you have to continue to improve your portfolio and don't let a NO deter you from asking elsewhere.

Small improvements or updates can justify slightly higher rents too.

Village to Village Network (https://www.vtvnetwork.org/) and Men’s Sheds Association (https://usmenssheds.org/) are successful models of people building community to improve the aging experience.So drawing on Dr Thomas and Nancy’s work and incorporating cohousing and pocket neighborhood elements into my communities, I have chosen to use shipping container homes in areas along the Texas coast where storms frequently cause wind and water damage.

Places like Leander, Cedar Park, and Georgetown are seeing incredible infrastructure improvements and population spikes.

We improve the kitchen and the patio but just because we live here.

As the market improves, you might also have a chance to refinance and lower your payments.

The refi or additional debt of any kind will impact the current performance of your property I'm never a great fan of selling a good producing property - unless I am certain I can improve the overall performance of my portfolio. 

Marina improvements ahead of us, county jurisdiction liberties on STRs, and an upcoming golf course has really made this area go nuts!

Then focus on improving your interviewing skills to help you build a solid team on the ground wherever you do choose to invest.

Any improvements that were done over the years had to be done to code of that year .