You will discover that most biglaw lawyers are terribly risk averse and view entrepreneurship/REI investment (outside of passive investments in REIT's) with suspicion/skepticism.

The few I've found who do this charge rates SFR investors can't afford because they are built for MFR institutional investors.Has anyone seen an entrepreneur step into this space with a good data aggregator that gets down to zip code on things like job growth, median house price changes over time, population growth over time, ave rent prices over time, etc.?

They are essentially institutional lenders, HML, etc.  

I have already checked with a few banks and online mortgage institutions and it seems like many of them want you to own the property for at least 6 months before refinancing and pulling money out.

If you do, you may be able to find note on note financing, but typically these outlets are for more institutional borrowers, I'm not sure if there would be any willing to lend at that amount and to an individual. 

The corona-virus was able to put on full display the inadequacies of our savings deficient economy; much like the moral hazard and problems within the banking institution that led to the collapse of housing market, lets table the economic impact made by the corona-virus and instead address the underlying problems that have since surfaced.

Since it was institutional paper, forget about it. 

I've found that the smaller banks with fewer branches are usually more likely to lend in such situations - especially the institutions that don't sell their notes on the secondary market.

I discovered syndications, fell in love with them, didn't know much about how to do due diligence on syndications, spent a year or so figuring that out, and still very much love syndications.  

It gets hairy when lenders sell over the mortgages to bigger institutions.