Would someone point me to some different alternatives to keep the education train going.

Tenant can show your actions forced him to look for alternative options. you have a email in July 2016 discussing increase in rents for next July 2017. - If house is on market for 4 months , i can see from a tenant point of view why he can claim that you have not done the best to get it rented-  you expected market rents of 3200 and you are now advertising for 2800, just 12% more and have other costs to worry about.I feel best thing to do is to get it rented asap with the right PM and then move on. 

Tyler Johnson well Tyler I have a good college education and MBA in Real estate, so obviously my MBA, help on alternative financing modes and Great ideas from professor, and My Bachelor in business open me the door to know more of the etiquette and how to sit at the big boys table, Institutional Investors and Big Family Practice, so the info maybe not.

Maybe the better alternative is just getting a private lender loan for the cash we need....Hopefully some of you bankers can chime in and offer some advice.

Does anybody alternate between buy and hold, then flip a house to make a large payment towards principal on their buy and holds?

Screen your own tenants and refer them to this company if you have neither the time or alternative management company to fill the vacancy and find a better alternative once the unit is occupied and actually making you money. 

I researched several case studies using this program in Chicago and it does offer an alternative without requiring a HUD consultant and no UMIP and  a lower PMI.  

I NEVER encourage an alternate channel with tenants. 

The web portal the other gentleman listed is an alternative, but I think they separate the data for city and county.

@Ryan Rodgers the key here is to keep trying the banks, it may take a little time but if you stick to your guns of buy and holding you may have to look at mortgage brokers/banker as an alternative to conventional banking, gulf coast bank could be a great place to start, keep envesting/investing my redstick neighbor, keep posting but most of all keep sharing