I am going to try shifting to other gigs and posting multiples

For my rentals, I often have to shift funds between personal and business when funds run short.Getting a mortgage via an LLC is more costly, if you can get it, and you have personally guaranty anyway.

@Tim Hendrickson, related party basis shifting - no bueno! 

We had a private lender that was going to do it for us and then had a shift within his own business and had to delay.

So, if you are putting $500.00 a month into your IRA and now you want to start to fully invest in real estate, stop the investment into the IRA, let that money in their sit and grow, and then shift all the savings to your real estate investments.

The beauty of this new job is that it will be swing shift.

If you set the company up as a generic LLC, it is most likely that all tax burdens are shifted to the partners.

I have completed several high end properties in the last year for my personal portfolio, and have shifted gears back into the middle/lower income area as this demographic is having a hard time finding quality homes that are reasonably prices.  

Specifically are there environmental shifts that might be happening in the area?  

If I had a real estate license I could immediately shift gears into listing mode and get a listing contract and work to find a buyer for their property which I could not do as just an investor.