I got to my current financial success through a series of well thought out endeavors but with a massive sink or swim element as I am often self guided..."

It's not just shorter-term downturns to be aware of, real estate just like the stock market can experience 10 year periods of no growth. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/csushpinsa

Greatly increased lending capital by transitioning from a ‘blind pool” fund to a series LLC / syndication model where investors know the property lending deal before committing to any loan and can “pick and choose” whichever loans they do or do not want to participate in.  

If an investor can create a Texas Series LLC for $350 and place each investment property inside a separate series at a cost of $27 filing fee, why not take this step to ensure that the problem of one property can’t flow through to the other properties?  

Search deferred sales trust vs 1031 exchange on YouTube for a 7 part series.

Do a series with each focused on the different things you mentioned. 

Check out this 12-Part Series published here on BP all about DSCR Loans here in one place!

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!

Quote from @Bill Warren: I was hoping to find someone who could help me transfer properties out of my personal name into a series LLC or multiple LLCs.

Also, I'm stuck with out-of-state investing which brings a whole series of risks with minimized financial upside (in my opinion)