An LLC will not change the tax treatment of a rental.

You want S corporation treatment. 

If you are expecting to waltz in and be able to casually pick up a great deal off of loopnet or the mls in CA, you are sorely mistaken ... great deals must be found and/or created, and this takes hard work and skill.

PM says, no, sorry, you didn't have any window treatments when the painters arrived, but we can have our guys install some for you, for a fee.

Each snow storm can be 40-75 and that is for the driveway and not even the steps or sidewalk.Each weekly lawn cut can be 30-50 and that does not include and treatments or landscaping those are more charges!

Being right does not necessarily entitle you to fair treatment.

I know for them it might be a sore subject but you never know they might tell you alot of valuable information.  

One idea that I have read about, but never known anyone personally use it is this;Depending on tax brackets for ordinary income (interest) and capital gains, adjust price/rate as needed for best tax treatment. 

I do not want to sell the unit.How can I preserve the tax free treatment of capital gains during those five years?

These are easy to separate out for tax treatment.