I think all of this is not in his world and not part of what he knows.He can continue to help us with our ROTHs/IRAs and other traditional investments and I will handle the rest ;)And just so everyone knows- the reason we hired him was because I I don't have time to research our investments and where to put X amount of dollars and move this, save this...yada yadda.

Unless you have a lot of assets, and your going to buy and hold single family, going the traditional mortgage route in your personal name is probable the way to go.You can have up to 10 traditional mortgages, the first four are relatively easy, 5-10 have more strict underwritting (720 mid FICO, 6 month reserves for all rental property, etc)Go meet and make friends with a good mortgage broker (or 2 or 3) have them go over the potential deals.I would recommend doing that for your first 10 single family (everyone i different but just spend a couple of hundred dollar for a $2-$3 M umbrella policy.After you get to that point you will put properties into LLC and get commercial financing, but as Jon pointed out, isn't as good as traditional mortgages (rates will be a little higher and you won't lock them in for anything close to 30 years)For multi-family forget everything I just said, it a different world

Would you end up going with traditional financing to have the property end up cashflowing?

You need to talk to the desk sergeant and explain exactly what is going on.

This particular property didn't fall into traditional parameters for analyzing.

How does the installation cost compare to a traditional system?

I imagine that the 1st home you buy is going to be 1-4 units & you will be using traditional financing.

Looking to gain knowledge work hard and leave the 8-5 grind of my desk job.

Please inbox me if you're interested in that as well as for other REI partnerships.I also look forward to learning more about the different ways to acquire property, especially without using one's own funding or 'traditional' funding upfront. 

My ultimate goal is to build a real estate investment business where I could leave my 40 hour/week desk job and work for myself.Like I said, I am new to investing but I've been looking at BP blogs and started listening to some BP podcasts.