I also recommended them to a client of mine who was having issues with a traditional bank and he closed with them on a rental property.

A streamlined process for cost segregation studies: AI is able to help streamline the cost segregation reclassifications by analyzing and identifying property components into their appropriate useful life more efficiently than traditional methods.The ability to identify eligible tax credits: AI is able to sort through and analyze a vast amount of tax laws and regulations in order to attempt to identify potential tax credits available to the real estate investor.

Would I recommend my non-traditional route of building an income property to anyone else?

Just looking to collect my rent :-)Can anyone tell me what are the things which are different compared to the traditional residential lease in California?

also - traditional, vanilla LTRs don't cash flow anywhere right now without some kind of niche or creative or hands-on or intense strategy. 

The benefits to using available cash to fund multiples investments as opposed to paying all cash for one investment seem pretty self explanatory, but the largest benefits...especially in real estate...are likely the ability the spread risk across multiple investments and the ability to make multiple investments in a shorter period of time, allowing your cash flow, equity, and ultimately potentially your net worth to increase at a faster pace.To answer your question about traditional financing directly, yes you can obtain a traditional mortgage and put a large cash down payment down, essentially financing 'part' of the purchase price.

I thought in order to refi on an FHA to a traditional mortgage you need to have 20% in equity after refi but it appears once you hit 20% you can refi and pull all your equity out!

The deal may literally have to go in their name because of debt to income requirements from any traditional lender.  

I wanted to find an investment strategy that would provide more cashflow than a traditional long term rental, but I wanted it to be lower maintenance than a short term rental.

-I'd rather not go the traditional route with buying just because my W2 isn't exactly the most stable and i'm a full time college student.