Using money from an appreciating asset just to pay your landlord doesn't seem like a good flow of money.

I like the asset class IE not C class in the deep south.

If you tell them their credit score is too low (or some other reason) and somehow you obtained information that is inaccurate, then there is the potential to cause a legal problem. 

I'm passionate about real estate and how utilizing this asset class can enable me to build generational wealth and retire early.

You can still do a 1031 exchange foreign to foreign asset.  

I'm an asset-based (hard money) lender from Atlanta with an extensive 15-yr background in residential and commercial real estate looking to learn more from the BP community and how I can help those that need investment financing. 

But, it’s not a business because even if successful, you don’t own the underlying asset, so unless you grow very large you have nothing to sell.  

VS Real Estate, nobody controls or makes a forced sale of your assets because there "fearful" what may happen.

What did the process look like for you to obtain that LOC?

Lastly, I am extremely open to working with investors, or obtaining private funds as well.