We should meet up soon and trade some ideas!

Then I'd use the other methods provided by the gentleman who have answered prior to this post.

You can get the rate down, but the trade off will be more fees. 

I'm in a situation where I would actually prefer to turn my crowdfunding investments (over $300k of investments across 45 deals) into a trade or business and report it on Schedule C and opt into paying social security tax, etc. instead of just reporting aggregating the income from 1099s and K-1s onto the interest/dividends line of my tax return.  

Found guilty in conspiring with 20 other traders and brokers to rig LIBOR to benefit his own trading positions, Tom Hayes was finally convicted and sentenced to 14 years in prison by a U.K. judge.

The key in this business is to know how you can add value to any deal (have a property, have money, have trade skills, etc...) and capitalize on that to build your business and knowledge when you are starting out.  

From there I will be building my portfolio with other methods.

In this you would be wise to work with your accountant to use documentation to memorialize your intent to "hold the property for productive use in business trade or for investment".  

It could be a way of avoiding confrontation with the tenants, rather than the " I know a guy" method.

Is It both methods?