The problem is im not sure if that is a great idea and if it will work out.

You have to run each tenant through their paces to see if there is a real need for a workout or not.Investors are buying NNN deals.

I fix/improve/update things on a routine basis as is reasonable and needed, in my opinion.

I think this is a good time to begin because a) every day is so routine that this is the right time to be making good habits, and for the past 6 weeks i've been waking up and analyzing deals. 

I do have a good network of people here I will be contracting the work out to but anything I can do on my own to cut cost I am more then happy to do.

I'll even review any existing surveys for you at no charge.I hope things work out with the neighbor!

I was hoping to put that money down on the new place to lower my monthly mortgage payment (paying PMI with current mortgage), but the timing of the sale couldn't work out.

I respect that real estate professionals and bankers will be the last on the planet to believe that a fax machine provides more security than the worlds best encryption (even though routinely there documents are sent to wrong numbers by human error) but why in 2020 are we pushing people off a mobile app onto a web viewer to read stuff?

I didn't realize this was non-owner occupant property.I'm not sure of how to work out the logistics, but if the person gifting you the funds decided they wanted to be paid back, you could both sign a note for longer term payback, say 5 years with a very favorable interest rate.

A dining room can be a dining room, a play room, an office, a video game room, a workout room (yes, I've seen some of my tenants do that), or just a place for a ton of crap to land.