Many investors switch over to these loans once they have a few properties (typically 5 on average, but you are right there in the typical fashion for property number 4)Check out these series of articles on the loan topic published on BP as well for all you need to know about this option!

I also met the Wagner and the Nolasco team in person in their Orlando office, and they seem to care about delivering a quality product in a timely fashion.  

Every once in awhile here on BiggerPockets a product like this makes an appearance and gets pumped up very aggressively, and the unfortunate thing is that it makes an impression on folks that are new to investing or may not have much of a financial background.Any seasoned lender will tell you that one of the most basic tenets of lending is that your loan must be secured or collateralized in some fashion.

Owning real estate is not considerd an operating company thus a bank will not lend or give a line of credit in that fashion.

Finding information this way is often faster when necessary information couldn't be obtained directly through the internet.That's the old fashion way of doing things before the internet.  

It can be helpful to have that old fashioned sit down like you said, but it's no longer necessary. 

Pursuing a SFR in the fashion I mentioned above would be more amicable, but this depends on your ability to enter.   

Real Estate or ART or Jewelry or your kids baseball card collection.The principles apply to whatever you are buying. 

My mentor helped ALOT with advice, helping me stage she used to be a fashion designer in NYC (where I'm originally from) and is now both an Airbnb arbitrage investor and a real estate agent where she personally stages all her properties that she sells or Airbnbs.

It offers things that simply can’t be found anywhere else in the world and it’s clearly the best place for many things (finance, fashion, art, culture, Broadway/ theatre, diversity of neighborhoods and people, always something to do at all hours of the day and night, hundreds of amazing restaurants with all kinds of food (I would say the best foodie city in the world by far and I’ve been to a lot of places including Paris, Rome etc.), incredible live music, parks (not just Central Park either there are a lot of them), public libraries and bookstores, shopping, all kinds of entertainment… It would be an uphill argument to make that it’s not the best in the world in all of these categories.