We bought them all for cash; we currently 80% occupied and generating plenty of cash with no debt and very low operating costs.We'd like to obtain a LOC for our business, a portfolio loan, etc in order to keep bringing new properties into the portfolio.What we are running into is that most of the portfolio is potentially under 75k per unit, but what caught me by surprise is the number of lenders who liked us either for a business LOC or portfolio loan but had residency requirements (of course we have local managers of all of these).

Also, how do you generate automatic statements every month?

Treat it like a business (time block for lead generating, some social media posts, talk/learn from more experienced agents in your brokerage), learn all you can from online sources.  

While we experienced losses in land and hotel investments, our income-generating data center portfolio flourished, balancing out the overall returns.

This could have been placed under either heading because there are benefits to both - but for the Buyer, there are verified records of payments made, tax reports, the ability to pay using ACH, generating payoff statements, and more...2.

From what I understand, if an individual is a passive investor in a project, the tax credit would also be passive and would only offset the liabilities generated from passive income.

Are HELOC's a viable way of generating income, wealth, good start to investing? 

For sure I'll be including the BRRRR report that Bigger Pockets generated for me, but there's much more information requested here than even that provides.  

At this point, I don't even recommend direct mail (in my industry) to franchisees, as there are a lot of other ways to reach your target audience for less money and spending less time.Again, I don't know much about the buy houses for cash industry, but it seems like there are probably facebook groups and next-door posts you could follow/search to place the right comment at the right time to generate interest. 

It has everything to do how much net profits it generates annually and how much appreciation can be realistically be estimated.