Before listing it on an STR platform, I need to make some improvements to my current home.How can I maximize tax write-offs for these improvements?

The best you can do research your market, improve personal budgeting, improve credit, and get your dollars working for you.

This typically results in improved cash flow with time.  

@Shaheen Ahmed you can find all the info you need online if you know where to look - except that the City of Detroit Assessor's Office is consistently undervaluing properties to keep property taxes attractive for investors - to keep improving the city:)Here's some copy & paste infor for Michigan Property Taxes that you might be able to use as a template for other areas - or you could start investing in Detroit:)----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Michigan has some of the most complicated property taxes in the USA.

Are you planning to hold as-is and focus on cash flow, or do you have a strategy for infill, increasing rents, or improving park infrastructure to boost value?

We help our clients:1) Find a fixer-upper to buy2) We get bids3) Negotiate a Scope Of Work with the owner using "Maintain to the Neighborhood" to avoid over-improving, but understanding we will have to pass city Rental Inspection to avoid being a slumlord.4) Provide multiple jobsite videos to show progress and document WHAT was done and the QUALITY.5) Handle passing city Rental Inspection6) Find a tenant with a Replacement Guarantee per Class7) Assist with refinance, so client can repeatSo, why you looking OOS again?

It allows landlords to offer tenants a financial perk that can improve their credit health.

Both can save time and improve efficiency, depending on how hands-on you want to be. 

Not an improvement.  

Primarily, my work has been in small commercial retail buildings (new construction and tenant improvements) with some work in single and multi family projects.