I would like to use this life adjustment as a catalyst for my entrance into real-estate. 

You have to adjust your expectations to match current reality, which includes higher mortgage rates, higher prices, more expensive taxes and insurance, more competition, etc.

However, if you bought it and managed it as a market rate apartment, your experience would be very different.My point is, I can control how fast a unit turns simply by adjusting my asking rents.  

But I feel like having the bank connections (to automatically pull in those expenses/revenues) is key to streamlining things.

Leveraging business credit for a real estate deal, especially if that credit is only interest-free for a short window, isn’t automatically a bad idea…but it’s definitely not for everyone.

The investors who succeed now will be the ones who adjust their strategies to current conditions rather than relying on what worked during the last bull market.

Its great for me where I need to adjust to paying a mortgage and was worried about my monthly payment a little bit! 

When that happens, you can adjust the rent to match current market rates.

My experience is though, that any fed backed loan, automatically is offered a chance to do a loan mod. 

Builders often adjust pricing based on rental saturation, which could impact future appreciation.