There are better legal ways to reduce liability, but each carries its own dangers.Example you own the LLC by yourself that holds your rental, but your spouse and you own your personal residence as tenants by the entireties, and your wife has the CDs and stock accounts in her name only.

Welcome to BP @Jordan Kissick , I am from a bit north of you, although I will be passing through next week on my way to the Denver Stock Show.

Need to look at SEC regs selling interests of a company, and unsecured, regardless of who they give money to, you or the company, setting the interests over to an investor is selling stock ownerships.Need to talk to an accountant, allow them in the company and keep their money in their capital account, then they contribute to deals from that account and they can take an interest according to their contributions, but don't buy notes this way, just RE. 

I do have $100,000 in stocks and no other obligations.

there isnt much housing stock there, but there pockets that would be great to invest in.

We took our capital gains and invested 2/3 in rental property and 1/3 in stocks and got an FHA loan for our primary residence when we moved to WA state, then turned it into a rental when we moved back east.

They didn't trust the stock market, and felt it was OK to lend me the money to invest.

I sold them all because I saw more potential in the stock market, then the bubble burst, but that's another story.I'm getting back in the game with a new strategy.

I have been investing in stocks for the last two years but they are very boring and I thought real estate investing seems much more exciting.

We'll have to wait a few years though before I have that kind of money stashed away for property (as a good portion of my investment money goes towards retirement, stocks, ETFs, etc.).