Credit scores are a reflection of someone's ability to learning and understanding the rules of the game and haveing the discipline to play by them.If you already have good credit, already pay everything on time (autopay), then increaseing your limits will probably help you the most, because it gets your utilization down, ideally under 10%.Higher hanging fruits are average credit and account age (just have to wait for that I guess) and inquiries, which are sometimes unavoidable as real estate investors.  

Plumbers are nuts. 

Suburbs in path of progress is the low hanging fruit.

I agree with you about the amount of sub 2 deals out there that make any kind of sense I get the feeling investor just think these things are out there as low hanging fruit to be plucked.. when nothing is further from the truth at least deals that would make sense to me and you .. of course there are always suckers that think over paying or paying full retail just to do a sub 2 is some great move. :)  but its like any paid training the reality of deal flow is greatly glossed over.

The finished product and getting the rewards from the fruit of the labor is way down the line.

We are hoping to avoid doing any sort of partnership and maintain a single member LLC, but searching online hasn't been fruitful.

And none of them had been fruitful.

The fees and conditions also can differ a lot, so you should try figure out first what kind of apple do you want (DP, LTV, rate) and then bring them to an apple-to-apple comparison to see which one gives you what you need for what cost (instead of accepting all the fruits that are on display from each different DSCR provider).  

@Robert Lum  you bet you can troll around a site like BP read their books listen to the pod cast of those that are successful and talk about their business's.. its inspiring and motivational.but if you really want to learn the nuts and bolts you need to get in the game.the best and least expensive way to do that is to simply take a pre license course in your state.. learn the laws ( the real laws not the BS that is talk about on line).. terminology etc. then go to work with a brokerage in the aspect of Real estate that interest  you.. there you will get REAL training by those that are successful you get on a team.. you get paid as you learn.

Having your calendar sync up between all is where a PMS comes in beautifully and OwnerRez is sou-to-nuts that best one out there.We went from one property to three within two years and the platform handles things wonderfully.The UI/UX utterly blows but the functionality is second to none.