Best option is a HELOC.You may want to look elsewhere to invest. 300K homes will not have positive cash flow and remote properties attract very low quality tenants.

The best way to see the quality of your listings is to focus on revenue per available night.

However I do want to make the units attractive so I can get quality tenants.  

For that age group its all about walk score and the things they value as quality of life.

Haha, at my last "job" we called you folks QA(quality assurance)...

I will ask my guys if they know anyone else who does quality work that can take on another project and send them your way.     

We live outside of Michigan, and reading forums online, it seems like the quality of neighborhoods in Detroit change street to street, and block to block on the same street.

There's tons of bandit signs around town already and without having a quality mailing list, direct mail seems like a low percentage expense.

They should be vented to the exterior otherwise they only serve the purpose of being a coarse particulate filter and do little for the air quality within the premises.In the IBC/IRC and building code in many, if not most, jurisdictions range hoods must be vented to the outdoors.

But if you invest wisely your cash flow should help cover much of that mortgage payment ... and quality cash flow (on C class/ workforce apartments) doesn't evaporate during a melt down.