Hi - New Intro / Advise

[Chuck A.]

Hi,  I am a new real estate investor hoping the grow my real estate portfolio.  I am super excited that I stumbled upon this site,  just wish I found it a year ago as there is a wealth of information here.

I am in the Indianapolis market (where I currently hold my properties) and wanted to get some advice from the experts...

1) I bought a 4 properties a couple of years ago and currently rent them under a couple of LLC's. They were all cash deals. Now I wish I had leveraged them. Not too many banks want to lend to LLC's so was thinking about doing a quit claim to my personal name, but then its the whole liability discussion and is it worth keep an LLC.

So my question is what is the best way to pull some cash out of them so I can leverage the properties ?  

2) Does  anyone know of a good plumber in the Indianapolis area

Thanks in advance for your advice