Obviously a big part of investing is working with different lenders and each one needs to run your credit (sometimes multiple time) in order to approve you for loans.

If you are still looking for a multiple, house hacking may be a good alternative.  

Out of all the properties I've owned I've never been the "landlord"...it's really a technical term that has stuck around for some reason...anyway, my position is always that I work for the company that owns the property...even though it's my sole or multiple member LLC...there's nothing wrong with holding property in your personal name...an LLC really doesn't offer that much protection anyway...I guess the point is to consider transferring title to your LLC...though there are some things to be aware of here. 

It also clears any misunderstanding about who pays what.When you have multiple tenants with different type of leases to deal with, you quickly realize that the more uniform your leases are, the easier is to manage your tenants.

If you had multiple renovations to make at once that would be a larger expense and difficult to save up for then a HELOC might make sense.

I sometimes discount the pet rent for multiple pets.

We are building multiple streams of income; this is currently one of them.

I would speak to multiple lenders to see if anyone else is interested in doing the deal.

Have been self-educating through multiple books, BP podcasts and forums, etc...I plan to invest in real estate as a side hustle. 

That probably explains the same price listed multiple times.