I have seen 25% down when my buyer is a doctor giving a personal guarantee and has really high income like 600k to 1 million a year.Lenders put more on buyer say 80% to qualify when it's a weaker tenant and reverse that typically about 80% weighted on tenant when they are investment grade and parent corporate is guaranteeing the lease.

You'll have to check out the annual corporate fees in your jurisdiction, and other fees, such as CPA fees to see if it makes sense for you. 

Or is that solely a function of most REPs running their rentals taxed as a corporation, rather than as a partnership, forcing the income into the W2 category other than owner shares paid?

Another alternative is to try furnished corporate rentals where you rent to traveling professionals for 1-3 months.

NOI sort of equates to EDITDA, if you are talking traditional corporate finance.  

Start a new corporation and look into getting some sort of start-up funding or LOC for backup funds.

Start a new corporation and look into getting some sort of start-up funding or LOC for backup funds.

As the LLC and Corporation are separate entities it shouldn't have any effect on each other aside from the loan from the Corp to LLC.

Unfortunately people think an LLC is a magic shield, but there are countless ways to pierce the corporate veil.

I applied to DBPR yesterday to license my new corporation.