Find some mortgage brokers you can build relationships with who can look at your finances and give you some pointers on how to improve it :-)

Understanding what improvements should be done to maximize value, 3.

So while it feels nice to make some improvements to a block and help to stimulate the economy--it is not exactly a business success.I am in the process of doing a block of 10 houses and this where the real money is because you can control many more of the variables.

I think CT is best poised of the three for some improvement. 

This neighbor moved in about three years ago and reportedly started making improvements two years ago.

How could they improve?

I'm not experienced with this, but have one simple goal - to do a cash-out refi on four properties (three MFR, one SFR) to recover my personal funds used to improve them, all of which I have owned for 5-ish years (no seasoning issues).Debt to income is great, credit is exceptional... there are none of those issues.Thanks in advance for your feedback!

An example will be paying for a property all cash and then make the necessary cap ex improvements.

If she could afford it, she would already be paying something or at least making improvements to the property.

And using your capital to pay down debt and improve another investment at what you feel is a strategic time is a good thing (in spite of what you'll hear from all the leverage jockeys around).