Closing off your mind to entire asset classes strikes me as self-defeating. 

So if the money is in your account, the bank usually only needs to see statements that go back 60 days and the money will appear as though it were always there.Just to be clear, lenders don't allow Credit to be used as a down payment since that's essentially defeating the purpose.

My goals were way too low and after reading Grant Cardone's 10X rule and talking to other wildly successful entrepreneurs here in my neck of the woods I came to that realization.We are only limited by self defeating thoughts and self perceived limitations.Go for it!!!

That will defeat the purpose of what you're trying to do.  

If you keep taken money out of your pocket to have someone live there would defeat the purpose for you to get into the market. 

This will attract good people and is commonly known as stabilizing a unit.And BTW: selling FSBO to save 6% comission is defeating the purpose; why do you think everyone on BP is hunting for an off-market deal?

I ended up having to manually reconcile some of the Stessa reports, which defeated the purpose of using an online platform.

The principle is what you need to take away ( Use HELOC money to pay your bills, deposit your income back to HELOC balance, Occasionally use HELOC money to pay extra principle on a loan, and repeat).You are gonna have the extra bill of the HELOC payment but Long Term you will have a lot a interest that you're defeating by paying principle off early.  

A broker told me that there are actually sellers who want to sell, but don't want to take the tax hit and buying or exchanging into another property at the current prices defeats the purpose of selling.

I believe you could purchase an off market deal, than as soon as title cleared begin to market the property as you would now own it, but if you can just double close it would defeat the entire intent of law which btw is something courts will often look at during cases about interpretation of laws, what was the intent?