I would possibly have made a better decision on what improvements to make if I had sought their help during the rehab process.

Here's what I've got: Purchase price: 85K, down payment: 16K (don't want to buy the property outright at this time), income: 1000, total expenses: $680, cash flow: $320, CoC ROI: 20.12%, NOI: 8,148The house doesn't need any major improvements at the moment, and I was considering once the tenants leases are up in 2022 then I might consider making some improvements.

I don't want to say you need to provide your tenants with clean units because many tenants are pigs.If you can't get your rents increase to at least $700 per unit then even though you paid a very low price for the property I still think you purchase a dog because the problem with low rents is when you need to do improvements you don't have enough money coming in.Example.

There's been a lot of commercial development (new chain restaurants and strip mall improvements), but it still has some rough blocks.

The taxpayer or a disqualified person may manage the property, supervise improvement of the property, act as a contractor, or otherwise provide services to the EAT with respect to the property.f.

I have made a number of capital project improvements including insulating the entire building, renovating one unit, and installing two new water heaters.

In both cases, generally, most of the cost would be capitalized as either inventories or building/improvements, so you wouldn't need multiple COA. 

Having the option to borrow 500K instead of 400K will improve the number of potential investments which would be helpful in this competitive market.  

Fix vs replace something) and tenant advocacy/satisfaction (eg. run some kind of tenant satisfaction survey and give them a bonus for improvement or meeting a certain target)?

I believe that the original sales price, PLUS any allowed improvements, are what make up the Basis.