I plan on keeping my corporate job and invest on the side so the main reason for licensure was for access to the MLS and being able to investigate listed properties on my own and of course, market and sell my own properties.  

I plan on keeping my corporate job and invest on the side so the main reason for licensure was for access to the MLS and being able to investigate listed properties on my own and of course, market and sell my own properties.

Lack of understanding and a good CPA IMO...Work w/ a firm that specializes in working with corporations...not some old guy that works out of his house...

Look in the middle of the country at secondary and tertiary markets with stable and growing economies that are relatively diverse and not at the mercy of one large corporation. 

If I was to purchase a multifamily investment, for example a 6-unit property, and turned two of the units into vacation or short term corporate rentals that increased NOI when compared to traditional rental income with lower NOI, how would lenders look into this in terms of a value add to the property?  

It's very difficult to not do something that'll pierce the corporate veil.  

I made several, and the corny ones play better than the corporate looking stuff.

Hello, I'm basically just trying to feel the waters out a bit.We are planning (hoping) for my wife to leave her corporate job in January.

I'm a corporate accountant and use Excel. 

That limit would make it really hard to build a real estate income I could use as I eventually transition out of the corporate world which is My ultimate my goal.