If you must rent during prior or during listing, consider a shorter lease, or healthy terms for an incentive to the new buyer. 

Were still seeing a healthy amount of investors from up north and foreign nationals purchasing in Florida. 

For healthy investor focused mortgages check in with @Joseph Chiofalo for options and a second look.

It seems to be a healthy mix of the two when it comes to real estate as a business and as an investment.

Mindset, daily discipline, refusal to give up, and having the life (healthy marriage, kids and self) you want is much more difficult in practice and often requires a teachers. :)Joe Fairless, Rod Khleif, Michael Blank (in no particular order).

So if you have need for a liquid emergency fund for your health, I don’t think you should play with that portion by buying properties. 

We just closed on an all cash purchase via an SMLLC of a SFR at auction (at a healthy discount to market due to distress) that we intend to use as an investment property, and we're looking for guidance on the best strategies for pulling as much equity out of the deal as possible to roll into another property (identified but yet to be purchased).  

It's a great way to create a healthy portfolio over time, and it's a fantastic vehicle for wealth building. 

Please let me know if there are any recommended sources to obtain business lending for start up businesses and provide assistance to maintain healthy business credit. 

You don't necessarily need 20% down and since it's below market, might have room for a healthy seller concession..check with the lender for disclosing the seller relation.