many mixed reviews and they seem to be focusing on new investor who may not know what they may not know with regards to a safe and secure rental investment

Edit: My experience is Student Housing, LIHTC, Mixed Income, and Traditional Multifamily.

Some even come straight from their accounts.Maybe I just have reliable tenants or a good mail service, but it has been a bullet proof and an easy ritual for me and my tenants; even  if still old school, it is a  durable process that works with any tenant, at any level of tech or financial sophistication, even avoids any tech glitch, is low fee, and survives any bank merger, bank policy rule (or fee), etc. 

You are trying to use the wrong product if you mix a conventional lender with that entity structure.  

If it's mixed in with your deposits and reserve funds, you may accidentally spend money you shouldn't have.

The current project we have that I find most exciting is a construction project in New York State, a mixed-use building construction in 2 phases, for a total amount of 122M.

Definitely in "Analysis Paralysis" mixed with my own shortcomings. 

If it is a mix they want they might only allow the area to be 40% housing, 20% retail, etc.

You will get far more money as a Flex building.Door height and Ceiling clearance height dictates usage.I'm over in Northeast Pennsylvania.. think Scranton.We're able to provide goods to 40% of the U.S within one day from any warehousing close to our major highway systems.The property itself is located in a somewhat residential area on a main street w/ a city population of 44K.The area is more lower class but I live in the area & I've seen an improvement within the last five years.There's plenty of car traffic, not so much pedestrian.I haven't measured the ceiling height but we're somewhere around 15-20 feet.We have drive up parking space in the back of the building - enough for about five cars (+/-) at a time.We do have a mix of residential & commercial neighbors.Would you recommend going with car storage or should I frame out additional storage spaces in the front half of the building? 

We’re just starting out so we don’t have a huge network, but think we can leverage 203kcontractors.com as a good starting place since this is a similar type of loan.Im also in search of a mortgage broker familiar with HomeStyle loans, as my current broker outsources it and has had mixed outcomes.