Furthermore some lenders have private or institutional funds that can offer (usually shorter duration) terms lower than market rates. - Priority processing and underwriting.

There are many more, but this might be a very fordable fix if you have a place for it. https://www.amazon.com/Cycling...Also, consider instituting laundry room hours and locking the door at night.

Now I know.Some cards will also allow you to go to your banking institution (or theirs) and the bank can do a cash advance up to the card limit into your banking account.

I don't believe me or my wife's income will be able to cover a full 80-90% LTV line of that amount but I want to be able to get a line as close as possible.Is there currently an institution that is recommended or any that should be avoided?

There are many institutional investors from Wall Street that buy single family homes.

In addition one of their more attractive aspects is that most of them already have institutional debt on them which you assume your share of. 

That makes sense - these successful GPs/Operators are often only looking for institutional investors / QPs because they don't want the hassle of smaller checks.I've probably looked at dozens of deals so far and came close to investing in one that required a larger check.

In this scenario, you are lending money to yourself as an individual, it allows you to make regular mortgage payments to yourself rather than paying the P+I to a bank or other lender.The first step is to qualify for a Non-Arm’s Length Mortgage with a financial institution. 

The "market" that gravitated to these hot spots; Austin, Nashville, Savannah, Asheville Miami are primarily corporate and institution leads(New York and California based mainly).

I am a mortgage broker (not licensed in CT), but here in Hawaii we have a few national mortgage banks/financial institutions we work with which will provide financing on condos where the master policy is less than 100% replacement cost.