-Should I expect push back?

If you focus on your team and leverage them in your conversations, you will most likely experience less of those direct push back questions.

Is that based on actuals or what you think you push rents to after the renovation?

Is there any upside there in pushing the rents

Doubly so since Amazon owns Ring, and will probably push this as the product they are offering, so once you're hooked into the Ring system, switching to another will be a tougher sell.

What's stopping you from pushing them to market?

You can certainly push value by updating (cosmetic) finishes but only to a point. 

My strategy: I host a podcast, which I promote to my connections on a daily basis by pushing new, valuable content to them.

From memory and I am not lawyer, what the cash investor wants forces the deal so your business would be offering a security.Investing expecting a profitSomeone else running everythingThe two points above are the issue from what I see.If you set this up as a simple loan where you are liable to pay it back even when the project fails, that might, just might push things back onto the right side of the line.

You can usually run a few lamps, alarm clocks, phone chargers, etc no problem, but if the tenant wants to (say) use a hair dryer in the bedroom, they might end up popping a breaker.One disadvantage to a window unit, especially if it's on the first floor in a less-than-great neighborhood, is that it's relatively easy for the bad guys to push it into the house from the outside, and then climb in through the resulting hole.