These are typically more like corporate housing or traveling medical professionals.Short term rentals—We've used Airbnb selectively as a way to turbo-charge properties that maybe have a small funky unit that can't command strong rents but still is a bear to heat in the winter. 

I wanted to increase the value to about the same specs to command higher rents on that range of $1900-$2400 for the area.

Your wish is my command. :)

You can find a nice outpatient (or other) position and get your loans paid down, or even paid off, over time while you continue to command a near-market salary.

This is because in part,  most of the C deals i have seen involve debt of 75% of Purchase Price + reno costs with a refy in year 2 or 3 while the B class properties are able to command 10 year fixed rate debt. 

Times like now though they're too backed up to get into the cheap work and we can find a local painter, normally someone new that is just starting out on their own and doesn't have the name recognition to command the higher price, advertising on local town FB pages.

The other properties commanding top rents the renters want it to constantly look like a diamond or they go elsewhere.You could ask why the property owners do not push top market rents?

Wix has a commanding lead at this point.

If you spend $10k on a kitchen remodel, you may be able to command an extra $100/month, and it'll reduce your vacancy to 3%. 

Now I was able to command a better price because I paid in cash and all three were desperate to sell.