Because you gotta have multiple exit strategies. 

I felt like checking a little bit more so I ran a proper background check on her and was shocked to find that she has multiple felonies including jail time.

Hi Y'all:I'm exploring the possibility of getting into Transactional Funding and would love to hear your experiences from both the lender and borrower perspective.

Given this was our first time purchasing an investment property, working with a partner on a cash deal, and understanding how to get FSBO deal completed, we had to learn a ton and ran into multiple challenges.

From a $ perspective you get the same amount of appreciation, depreciation, loan pay down, but here you have cashflow and if if a tenant moves out, you are only 50% vacant instead of 100% vacant.- Generally the same logic applies as above.  

I am also looking for tax optimization as the business will require cash reserves and is a high risk business from a liability perspective.

Listing on multiple platforms does affect ranking by platforms but not as much as you think.  

Its like big corporations that own multiple brands they are all separate entities. so he has one tanking and has one doing well and now wants to raise capital for the one that is doing well.

I've seen banks be very competitive with blanket loans that cover multiple properties and/or multi-family properties, e.g. 5+ units.Mortgage Brokers (obviously I'm biased) - Brokers have the ability to work with all of the above and can get you to the best lender for your scenario right away instead of having you waste your time with the wrong type of lender.

If it is multiple units but all the rents are different amounts then it will be easier to track.