The disadvantages of retaining that debt and attempting to get financing, and the risk of taking on additional bad debts are too great in that scenario. 

Each will have advantages and disadvantages and the variables are generally priced in.

The subject of the advantages and disadvantages of getting your real estate license comes up often in the podcasts.

@Ryan Cauzza, there are advantages and disadvantages to going the real estate crowdfunding route.Advantages: much less risk and greater diversification.

What are the advantages and disadvantages?

@Matt Geerts Wow I didn't realize the RTA was that disadvantageous to landlords.

The disadvantage I see in investing away from your town is that you have to be travelling and you kind of loose control over your property.

All of the various avenues for filling our pipeline with leads work; they each have their advantages and disadvantages and it's just a case of keeping several of them going at any one time so a deal pops up every now and then.

I will be refinancing relatively shortly after closing and moving into one of the units.My thoughts are to completely keep my name out of the property and just move in as a tenant would, but I am not sure if there is a disadvantage to that?

The advantages far out-weigh the disadvantages.