While the same lending alternatives are available since the economic recovery gained traction in 2012 – Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, conduit lenders, banks and thrifts, and life insurance companies – each lender offers distinct advantages/disadvantages as it relates to loan structures, interest rates, closing costs, servicing, and their responses to the whims of the market.

The marketing and approach will be very different for these 2 distinct populations.Not sure you will get a university to endorse private housing, but you could establish a brand and market via the University's newspaper, radio, bulletin boards, etc.

No annual filings or fees, low initial fees, no additional taxes, charging order only, and no distinction between single member and multi-member for piercing purposes.

Specifically,"FinCEN intends the proposed regulations to reflect the distinction between a seller-financed transaction (which typically involves family members or friends in a one-time transaction) and a person that is primarily engaged in the mortgage finance business but for business reasons or changes in markets, competition or other factors, conducts relatively few transactions within a given period."

You treading on thin ice here by intermingling your distinct LLCs.

The branding in particular would be done in the content that I produced to advertise the open rooms along with physical branding on the outside of each house (ie distinctive color accents and perhaps even an led sign).

For information on how that applies to your case, seek out an attorney, but the beneficiary designations are related to this distinction. 

I have provided transactional funding for several deals in Florida; and as mentioned, title companies are going to require two separate and distinctly funded transactions. 

@Robert Lilly,As you're read - read - reading, one of the first distinctions you'll need to learn about multi-family is between residential and commercial.Residential MF is 2 to 4 units.

Seems like a small distinction but it can save a lot of time effort and money