If you think you will go FHA, Conventional, FHA 203k, etc. and then Quit Claim the property, to a LLC, or a Land Trust you run the risk of the lender discovering a Title Transfer occurred and activating the "Acceleration Clause" or "Due on Sale Clause" that requires the loan to be paid in full, within 'x' number of days.

You're "delaying" getting financing.There is no waiting period to refinance a hard money loan into conventional.

The purpose of the FHA loan is to increase home ownership for those who would not normally qualify for a conventional loan.

Yes, I would assume this type of loan is the main form of funding for commercial deals, but I also assumed that any SFH investor would need this type of loan at some point, once they max out at 10 conventional loans? 

I don't know if there's savings with that approach over conventional but that's definitely worth pursuing.

For the numbers to work (for me), I need to put down closer to like 5-10%.Are there any lenders out there doing conventional 30 year fixed loans for people like me with only 5-10% down on investment properties?  

My closing costs would be around 6k~ if I used a 25% down conventional loan.  

As you know in the 2-4 unit space financing is typically conventional. 

I've been talking to commercial and conventional lenders and my questions are as follows: Is borrowing in the LLC better, and does this really gain a better write-off potential?

Kirkpatrick has been nice for me due to their ability as both a portfolio lender as well as conventional (of the loan gets sold its picked up by their sister bank in Tulsa who are small and easy to work with)