M&T Bank may have something similar as well.There’s also Asset based lending if you can’t qualify the loan on personal income but could prove rental cashflow to make the payments.

In general, your description of your job history doesn't disqualify you but you may need some assistance with assets depending on the price range you are looking at. 

I often break it down into the "four pillars" of protecting your assets.

There are a wide spectrum of companies that would fit that description.Most local residential real estate investor companies are relatively small (in terms of the number of employees, not assets or profits) and they aren't going to care very much about which specific area you majored in.

When you invest in the RE, the down payment is not an expense, its an asset. 

@Lucas Carl You can use a digital lockbox that you can reset the code for after they leave.

If you want to use this metric since you are a buy and hold investor, I would pick the projected year that the asset will be stabilized. 

When a borrower is able to enter into a deal, with an incredibly low barrier to entry of 3.5% (+ additional acquisition costs), wouldn't it make more sense to enter a deal that will bring the largest possible asset at the date of maturity of the loan?

Yield is a measure of the markets perception of the risk in an asset, the asset class or market.

A syndication is very unlikely to have no debt).On the other hand, syndications allow most investors to access and diversify into asset classes that they would not be able to own on their own because the entry point is too high (ie, offices, mobile home parks, self storage facilities, larger multifamily etc.).