If you are living in the condo and have decent income and ok debt to income ratio I would get a conventional loan on a rental property and leave the condo alone. 

Hello and Yes paying down your debt would be good. 

It's those maniacs that buy homes cash via quit claim deed off of craigslist that really get screwed.Make sure your property manager is a licensed real estate brokerage.Understand you can not eliminate all risk, only mitigate it.

I'm thinking turn key would eliminate/delay some of the capex and maintenance and ultimately make the vacancies easier to fill but then I'm getting into more expensive territory.

Had a hard time to sell it due to my partner listing it really high and then quickly dropping the prices which I guess made people think, let’s just wait until it drops no more and needless to say there was hardly any return to talk about even though there was no debt service involved.May be your experience will be different but be careful!

Seller financing is usually for properties that have little to no debt on them.

Credit score is above 750 with no debt so I’m thinking I should be a good candidate for getting a loan (which I planned on looking Into around February).

If parent company guarantee then the whole company would need to go under (all locations) to basically make the guarantee worthless.If it's a full personal guarantee on the lease then the landlord can come after them personally and they would have to file personal BK to try to get the debt to go away.

My properties are in locations with high rental demand so I know even in a bad market I can easily cover my debt service and other expenses. 

That means the rental income covers the associated mortgage PLUS the cash that exceeds the mortgage and expenses helps pay other debt