Proceeds to segregated account to be disbursed ONLY on rental property improvements and expenses to preserve the deductibility of interest on your Schedule E.

These are features like online renter payments, tenant portal (for payments and work orders), help keeping track of work orders, tax reporting features, and accounting functionality.

And 1/2 of that is accounting that I could farm out too, but I enjoy it. 

Then you need to bid fair market value, not appropriate the bid to take into account the STR revenue but more so LTR.

We currently accept rent from tenants using a variety of 3rd party apps-Cashapp, Venmo, Zelle but are moving away from accepting payments in our individual names and want to start accepting payments directly to the LLC/business accounts, but LLC accounts do not accept Zelle and there is a fee for using business accounts on Venmo.

They get a higher return since they are covering housing cost, have the $250k per spouse primary residence deduction in gains, is a savings account, higher leverage position, lower interest rate possible, will pay more premium for location, etc.House might be overpriced for REITs but not for home owners.  

That would be around $90,000 sitting in a savings account!

If you sold it for $500K (after expenses) and invested it in a savings account (or some in a RRSP or TFSA-up to your limit), even at 4%, you'd get $20K a year.Also what province is it in? 

A great deal of accountants work with out of state clients.

This doesn't account for transaction costs and reduction in leverage as you pay down the mortgage which accounts for closer to 2-3% less, so you 12-18%.