We have built this with good income and good rates and then the housing market increased our values to make it really comfortable, but we don’t have any cash to ride out a correction if the market slows down or decreases.   

Decreasing your leverage and risk.

All this being said, you of course want to also look at your exit CAP rate, and in a rising interest rate environment it's entirely possible that CAP rates will expand again so if you are paying up for the ability to execute value add I would also stress test the post value-add valuation with an expansion of CAP rates to ensure that your value-add opportunity isn't eaten up by a decrease in overall valuations. 

The only way to stave off price decreases in the face of (rapidly) increasing interest rates is disgusting proposals like this:https://www.businessinsider.co...It's basic math though.

This will do two things in my opinion: weed out bad operators and decrease margins across the board.Myself and most people I know still prefer hotels.

You can either increase rent, or decrease expenses in order to improve cash flow. 

The former is decreasing your taxes, and the latter increases them.

Price will increase if frame needs to enlarge nor decrease to accommodate new door. $995.00BASEMENT ENTRY -- Drywall and finish framed stairwell and door area entry.

If so and after reviewing these requests and finding many are unnecessary then request this limit be significantly decreased for these tenants. 

The home prices are more reasonable, but that probably comes with a decrease in rental prices.