If you are worried about being over leveraged first look at your personal debts that are not producing income for you.Remember that when you are increasing equity in a property you are only reducing the risk of the lender.

If it is a good deal then the right person will be willing to look at some private money options or even look to structure a partnership where they bring in the capital and lend-ability and you manage the deal for them.

I personally want to use this strategy to lock in a lower interest rate on a rental property (being 20 years old with a small amount of credit history). 

This is a different person cleaned after cleaning people cleaned for a short-term rental. 

If you have multiple people on the company, you ideally want the person with the highest credit score to have the most ownership percentages. 

Have you asked the person who trained you for direction? 

I've done some with owner financing, I have taken personal loans, and I have paid cash for the property.

That way you will insure you have warranty on the property, it is nice and desirable and built up to the new codes and has what the consumers like nowadays.

Should the landlord on the lease be our LLC or our personal names?

So instead of driving around you can use pin to find the property and the person.