.- Cant do blanket loan as I own one of the houses in one llc and the other in another llc.Thank you for your help and I hope someone will have good options!

There are a lot of positive ROI options in that bucket.To answer your question anything on the beach will rent well. 

This way, you build income-generating assets first while keeping future options open.

Over the past several years it has seem there have been more and more options.

If they do, your best bet is a local community bank that funds these types of properties.Another option is a private lender but that money will be pretty expensive, as mentioned 10%  + 

We used the lease option strategy so we would buy properties under market value and we would keep them for only around 3-5 years and then we would sell them and trade them up for more properties with the equity that was created.

Cleveland almost seems like the best option because of the affordability and rental demand, but worries me due to the high property taxes and lack of population and economic growth.

I am looking into my STR options but from what I have learned this is a overflowing market in the area and the vacancy's are increasing so I may look into mid term and long term only.

none of the above  Any insight into other options?

Note these are only residential options.