Pittsburgh is a good market to make money in now cash flow wise and has good upside as well if you know what you are doing. 

I do have monthly mortgages to be paid and not having rental income to offset my negative cash flow has been a learning experience and really trying to think of what options I have to have better success at this.

Would a cash out refi be under commercial terms since the property(s) are under LLC?

Purchase price: $145,000 Cash invested: $60,000 Fully renovated 4-5 bedroom ranch on 3.3 acres.

John Hickey congrats on buying a cash cow.

Purchase price: $302,500 Cash invested: $5,000 Utilized VA Loan for a House Hack for my first Rental Property.

You do have to purchase at least as much real estate as your net sale if you want to defer all tax.TICS are generally cash deals. 

high interest rates have hurt cash flow and long term rentals are still a great investment... they're just not going to throw off rental income in the first few years of ownership.

I get the distinct impression that these folks genuinely think that this rather mundane arbitrage program, coupled with forced savings, and placed into a very high cost insurance product wrapper earns 20% ROI when in actuality they’re looking at about 1/3 of that.

You will get way better loan terms than you would on a Cash out Refi as a partnership entity with no RE experience.This is all very theoretical, can you share the actual numbers so we can help you more?