You should look into selling and reinvesting to increase cash flow.

I am looking to add leverage strategy in order to increase my innovatory of flips.

The area is growing and I anticipate rents going up as well as house prices, i don't want to bet on this but it does give me some comfort that equity will increase over the next few years.  

Earlier this week we distributed rent increase notices to tenants at a property we purchased a couple of months ago here in Kansas City.

One way would be to increase the rent immediately by the next month if its a month to month.

To us, we're happy with this because it's in a place where we think the house will increase in value and it's a place we plan to live in down the road. 

Alan Russell that’s normally not “problem solved” because under normal condition your estate doesn’t get “stepped up” for taxes on increased basis value when you do a title addition l, rather than a will which is the proper vehicle.In your case both are somewhat irrelevant as the spouse you get the house anyway unless superseded by the will.

In time your expenses will increase considerably on individual doors and eat up your cash flow.I would be looking to sell now while the SFH market is still high.

Is Zillow outsourcing contractors or are they increasing their workforce for these new ventures.

Reduce consumer debt, increase your income, and buy fantastic deals that cash flow.