Sounds basic, but most financial institutions won't allow this (we're one of the few that do).These are just a few examples of how a modern banking platform can actually be a competitive advantage to a rental property owner.  

You will need to attend your local REIA meetings, network with agents, investors, property managers, GC's, handymen, and financial institutions.

Are are the requirements based solely on the asset and it's cash flow or will I need to show personal  taxes, the way most institutional banks ask?

The reason I said go with friends and family, credit cards and personal loans is because that money doesn't exist with institutional hard money lenders. 

Never before have institutions got into the single family rental market.

Then omg this guy even worked for some prestigious world famous institute and he has papers and patents to his name.

Once I took on tenant onboarding, direct control of maintenance issues AND instituted a repair deductible (see my initial post), tenant service calls pretty much vanished.  

Years ago when we first started, there weren't really institutional lenders that played in the fix-n-flip space.

I believe its just a matter of time for the financial institutions to start putting out the plan for mortgage payments freeze and roll them to the back of the loan.

Institutions like Lehman were so entrenched that its collapsed halted capital markets.