@Andrew Postell I recently started trying to finish the Rate/Term refinance and a property that I tried this strategy on and ran into a couple obstacles I thought I would share.
I filed a mortgage on the property with me as the mortgagor and the LLC as the mortgagee, just like you talk about in this forum. However, when I set up property management the rent payments go into my business (same LLC) account. I was told that underwriters right now are not just taking signed leases but need to see actual rental deposits on bank statements, otherwise they can't count rental income.
Additionally I was told that they can only count rental payment towards covering PITI but not the excess.
The lender I am working with also said that underwriters may ask to show payments have been made to the LLC as per terms of the mortgage.
it is looking like it may be harder to pull this off with out having everything set up perfectly. I may just need to file a satisfaction of mortgage and just do the cash out refinance at 70%LTV on my 3 unit versus the 75% this strategy was going to allow.