Bakersfield might be great too, growing, diversifying, and getting a good amount of LA peeps which always seems to boost values whenever that happens. 

I now always replace laterals on multiunits when rehabbing.I may have a spectacular sewer cleaning contractor here, but they identified the issue, I then called my excavator in to open the hole, then I had my trusted concrete guy repair sidewalk and curb. 8' down and $4500 total.

I even found that when I went back to school to finish my degree and had to have a couple of school loans, those new loan accounts opened on my report and report as positive and boost it too.All in all, I'm up mainly because I got that $5000 line from EA.

If your tenants are month to month, that's one thing, but if they have year leases or longer, the seller or you can't just kick them to the curb because you want to use more stringent criteria.

That might help with the curb appeal.

I'm considering several options to improve cashflow.1) Split meters and tenants pay utilities: this would be a huge boost, even if I just did electric, which is currently costing me 75 per unit.

The addition of Supersonic's new aircraft plant in Melbourne should be another boost for the county adding 700 new high paying jobs at the plant alone.

You might have an opportunity to appeal to further boost NOI. 

Either you are running a business - a people business, but a business nonetheless - or you are using your resources to philanthropically boost humankind. 

Some factors have an immediate and drastic affect on your credit score and can be addressed quickly and boost your score in a month’s time.