The link contained in the Buzzfeed article contains a chart (image below) that shows over 75% (1,4568,000 of 1,928,300) of rental properties are owned by individual investors.

Small businesses employ almost 50%+ of our workforce but the big corporations get all the attention and bailouts, in this case its going to be way beyond the $2Trillion earmarked for individuals, more like $10Trillion.

Would it need to be a personal loan with only one individual on title, multiple people on title?

There are people who have bought 1-3 notes etc and I consider those individuals people who invest in notes - whereas being a note investor is doing this on a consistent basis.

“Previously, if a married couple had depreciation deductions that exceeded their real estate business income, the couple could claim that "loss" to write off taxes on a maximum of $500,000 in income from other sources, like wages from a day job.Under the change, our rich taxpayer couple -- and this applies only for individuals, not corporations -- can now deduct an unlimited amount of "excess losses" in real estate against income from other sources.

I'm mainly using my license for referrals, and for my own investments, be interested to connect to like minded individuals. 

& GENEROUS with individuals. 

The trick is to find a cheap property that needs rehab and having another individual/entity pay the total costs initially.

I recommend setting up keyword alerts for each area as they are discussed in the forums daily with advertisements posted in the BiggerPockets marketplace hourly.One thing to note when looking at the individual markets, you can make or lose money in any market.

Previously, if a married couple had depreciation deductions that exceeded their real estate business income, the couple could claim that "loss" to write off taxes on a maximum of $500,000 in income from other sources, like wages from a day job.Under the change, our rich taxpayer couple -- and this applies only for individuals, not corporations -- can now deduct an unlimited amount of "excess losses" in real estate against income from other sources.