Take advantage of the lower downpayment programs early on and once you are tapped out of conventional loans, I would consider alternative financing. 

Naturally after listening to this I was pretty skeptical but came to the conclusion that it makes since. 

Just a nature of the game. 

These are natural food for Tilapia. 

Alternative rent models (STR, MTR, rent by room, etc.) do not necessarily do better and are more work.  

An alternative could be putting all your properties under one LLC to start, then reassessing as your portfolio grows.

Hey @Jordan Northrup check out Buildium, it may be a decent alternative and fit the bill for what you're looking for.

I might say that most of those are going to be residential in nature as well. 

Our thought is a bunch of $.06 per minute charges on your credit card would be too many line items on your CC statement, so by default the system will reload your account in $50 increments (you can change this to any increment)In the dialer interface, I thought we displayed $99 for unlimited minutes as an add-on to the main app as an alternative to pay per minute.

When interest rates rise, in a balanced market, rents should rise, as the alternative to renting - buying a home - becomes that much more expensive.