I would suggest you find a good local hard money lender.

Any suggestions?

I suggest to make deep research about the location and risk or ask experts personally before take actions. 

Second to that I like the privacy fence suggestion - blocking the visual contact of the dogs to people at your property will definitely help some.  

Any suggestions, warnings, or references of service providers would be great!

It’s an especially satisfying strategy for leveraging up from a 1031 where the gains made in the first property can put you immediately in a good spot to benefit from pay down with a larger loan with little to no additional expense.One of the 4 pillars of real estate wealth building, but probably won’t support too much alone.

Experts Thank you in advance for your suggestions. :)

They bill me for additional hours when they make repairs.

Any suggestions out there?  

What I mean here is that many people deduct their automobile expense in Line 9 – Car and Truck Expenses…..and you might be correct that itemizing your automobile deductions might allow you to get a HIGHER deduction when using this line….but your lender cannot add it back to your income!