@Ethan Henning Looking near the Bellwood Quarry development is a great idea.

I really liked the idea of being process oriented vs results oriented. 

It does not sound like that is the case.A discussion with your CPA or financial advisor who speaks this particular language would not be a bad idea.

You can try reaching out via the vacation rental platforms to other hosts in the immediate area of that property to see what they do about cleaning - to get ideas or recommendations.

Does anyone have ideas of how best to tap into the equity of a non-owner occupied building so that I can fund another deal?

Other ideas? 

Another idea is to only refinish the staircase and cover the rest of the hardwoods with floating vinyl plank - we have done this in cases when it was cost prohibitive to refinish (due to required patching).

Any ideas?

The goal with paying it off would be to jump the mental hurdle of owning a property free and clear, start an LLC and transfer the title into that LLC, and then to have a property that we can HELOC against in order to have the flexibility to make cash offers so that we can begin making LLC purchases more easily rather than titling in our own names.I'm certain that plenty here would advise to continue rolling the money into new properties, rather than to pay one down, since owning the house free and clear would provide about half the cash flow that we could get from down payments on two new properties, however my wife (in particular) and I both like the idea of simply owning one property outright and then using the above strategy moving forward. 

I’ve got a general idea of my plan, which I’m drafting formally on my desktop.