@Eric SuessYou may be able to potentially offset rental losses against business income to reduce taxable income.It won't decrease the amount you have to pay in "Self-employment taxes" though.

I know most people think OTCs are junk, but I was curious to know more on their method.

We are still trying to narrow down our first "strategy" and are thinking either single family buy and hold rental or a property purchased using the BRRRR method. 

Free money is the best money If your employer matches 4%, 8% or 2% you need to match that number.

I’ve offered seller financing, 30 year with balloon in 7 (hoping that whatever capital gains they would be hit over the time period I can make up to them even more so through interest payments), I still need to send them the break down of how much they will make through this method in total.

These methods ended 20 years ago.

Since I'm gainfully employed and have quite a bit of savings I don't qualify.

Actually a lot of the info you'd get from an operating statement (gross rent, expenses, NOI, etc.) is available on many listing websites like Redfin and realtor.com, albeit not as up to date as the MLS and not always accurate but that goes for all data provided by listings.Regarding MLS access: it is protected carefully with various methods such as keystroke tracking, IP address, simultaneous login etc. and agents can get in a lot of trouble for sharing their login info, which is good because within the massive database is a lot of private info that can be dangerous in the wrong hands like lockbox and security system codes.

Yes, to be more clear, I want to get the equity out of a rental property, in order to start using the BRRRR method to accumulate properties faster.  

How long have they been with their present employers.