Tenants like an employee.

The following link to the IRS website should be helpful: https://www.irs.gov/retirement-plans/plan-participant-employee/retirement-topics-prohibited-transactionsHaving the multiple lenders that are disqualified persons to each other (but not to you) should be all right.

And when I compare the expenses generally people are paying higher expenses for the larger properties per unit because they have levels of employees. 

As a W-2 employee with a strong base salary and credit, would I be able to buy the property from my own LLC and get a mortgage in lieu of a Refi if numbers get tight?

I currently am a full time employee, so I do not need the cash to live off of. 

As an employee I won't have the same privelidge.

The applicant is a startup that wants to house a few employees.

At first I worked as an independent contractor, until my boss heard I was having trouble getting a mortgage and was awesome enough to switch me to a salaried employee.

It is almost as if they are my employees. 

When you get a commercial tenants those 2-3 spots will be used by employees of those 1-2 businesses.