Our attorney confirmed with the Church attorney2.

I confirmed that with the lender before starting the process though to make sure.

I'd get another estimate to confirm numbers

Dealers cannot do 1031 exchanges, cannot do installment sales, and cannot take depreciation, all of which are reserved exclusively for "investors" who are not considered "dealers".  

My personal investment philosophy would avoid leveraging my primary residence unless I had plenty of reserves to ensure I would be covered in that kind of situation.

My dilemma is this: I would ideally like to wait until I have emergency cash reserves to cover 6 months of mortgage payments for all 3 properties.

Second is to contact a title company and ask them to confirm who is the recorded owner of the property. 

It makes it difficult to do simple maintenance, repairs, cleaning, etc.If you don't have a ton of reserves, I always think it's a good rule of thumb to have between 4-6 months mortgage in savings as you're trying to figure out a rhythm.

Thank you for the confirmation!  

@Henry Lazerow I can confirm.