Base cabinets are 24", so you're only going to be able to have them on one side, but even then that will be super tight. 

If you expect a crash and your cash flow is tight, the market is good NOW so sell them and take your profit.

I've been watching from the sidelines as a lender for 15 years, and recently put some deadlines on myself.  

You will receive a letter detailing the complaint with a deadline for remediation.

I wonder what the percentage is of rent-to-own aspirants who actually complete their Buy Option when their deadline arrives?)...

If it thinks a tenant may be moving it might monitor certain economic metrics to determine how tight the rental market is at the moment or it could even post a dummy vacancy listing to determine if it should send an offer to incentivize the tenant to stay based on how long it determines it would take to fill the unit with a new tenant.  

The important part is that it goes into that account before the RRSP contribution deadline (end of Feb 2017?

you can set that up now but until the unit is ready to market or 2 week before at the earliest is about the soonest you'll need one.Hire your friend to oversee the project take photo's and email you progress reports.Give your contractor deadline and remember it's not cheap to do cheap it's twice as expensive to switch it out. 

At the time the rent numbers would have made it tight to break even, today I'd be pulling in good cash flow with a couple of years of mortgage pay-down and extra equity.

I attend a much of local RE meetsups and find those the most effective for me - but it sounds like your schedule might be tight!