As for amenities, it really depends on the place as most of my places were bought in competitive markets, so fewer choices. 

If rents are going up, they face the decision of more vouchers at lower rents and hope they're close enough to qualify for market-rate OR fewer vouchers at higher-price.They may have made one of these decisions and run out of money. 

Now, we have fewer foreclosures and pre-foreclosures and a lot of properties have already been flipped or BRRRR'd so it's slim pickings in lots of markets.

It is very time consuming, especially since I’m trying to do this while working a full time job.

Those laws are put in place to protect the public.My advice is to get licensed and subject yourself to the laws that are in place to protect consumers. 

I have almost all of my consumer debt paid.  

So, putting the property in an LLC typically means that you’ve eliminated the residential/consumer type mortgage - the one most people want because of the long term low fixed rates.Lots of people say to just close in your name and then afterwards quit claim to your LLC.

"Sure, if nothing changes besides interest rates going up, fewer buyers would qualify at lesser amounts which would put down pressure on housing prices.  

It is surely a painful and time consuming process and I guess you also need to weigh whether the amount you need to recover is worth the additional costs and time.

In the US we did back in 2009, but it was very time consuming and was tough to do on food, given most of the coupons are for very unhealthy food.