Personally I’d prefer having all my loans with one entity like my local credit union who doesn’t sell them and just have the payments come out of my account that I already have with them, keeping it as simple as possible. 

I am wondering if it's as simple as just purchasing the car under my own name like a regular car and next year just add that car to a schedule C while I keep everything else still in Schedule E. 

It's deceptive practice, plain n simple. 

This is very simple. 

I use their payment method and they deposit into my account and it's very simple.

This means you may need to put more down on one home so it pays for itself.Here's Coach Carson explaining the simple concept in under 20 minutes.

Well, it is a simple comparison that makes sense.

@Grace Norton adding to what's been written already, you'll want to get a 2-year work history for both.To consistently pay rent, requires consistent income, which requires consistent employment.Pretty simple concept!

If you do not have those it will extremely hard to ever sell it to someone who will require bank/lender financing or refinance it down the road if you want to pull out cash on the ARV or future equity.The other rule of thumb is that you buy it New and that it was never on another property or location, simple built onsite or trailered in from warehouse. 

Its very simple to figure out & use and it gives enough metrics to analyze single family properties.