It really depends on your goals in the long term, personal resources and what you need.

The idea is that under these conditions, I would not personally benefit which could be viewed as acceptable non-rule breaking actions. 

Even the units I own personally (under and LLC) the tenants do not know that I am the owner.

Let's compare a $250,000,0 loan today versus two years ago.In America, the average person has a credit score of around 715 you’re looking at around 6.6% on a conventional 30 year loan.

Finding turnkey deals that cashflow well is EXTREMELY difficult especially if you are looking for ones that you like personally.

BTW, you get what you pay for - the cheaper ones are robotic/scripted while the good ones (more expensive) have presence, personality and situational awareness -  which helps with appointment setting. 

Unemployment will tick up heavily end of Q1 into Q2 and that's when the realization of this consumer debt: personal savings disaster that's been brewing will show up.

I'm looking to do a personal project of mine where i'll be building my own personal residence and decided to do it with just straight cash, and the idea was to cash-out refinance the property after it's completed.

Personally I am not handy so going through a GC would be best.

These typically are not reported to credit bureaus and also do not affect your debt to income ratio which frees up your credit for personal loans that you may need in the future as well as does not limit you to the amount of loans that you can have as a buy and hold investor.