So which is better in your opinion and/or experience, an LLC or a Corporation?  

You might be able to do some sort of commercial bank lending if you can show 50% or more pre-leases on your commercial and the numbers all make sense.This strategy could work for any of the lenders above.Bottom line, there has to be interest in the resulting spaces to interest the lenders and the developer, or the developer has to front the entire cost.Possibilities: if the town wants to revitalize itself, it can create a corporation to hold the buildings, and then offer to back the developer of the properties (public/private partnership)The town could hold the properties and issue bonds for revitalization, then do a master lease to a developer/Property Manager to recoup it's funds.

I left corporate life over a year ago, and I am still alive! 

This structure allows you to form a corporation and make your retirement plan a shareholder.  

Form some type of corporation that will protect you personally.  

(assuming a corporate tax election has not been made)Except now you have costs to maintain this structure.Single member LLCs are generally for legal liability protection, not tax savings.

What we should be trying to figure out is how to own real estate in Georgia for less than 1% property tax and own a corporation in florida for the zero state income tax benefit like Texas.

However you will notice that corporate landlords do not fight the system.

As LLC owned properties need corporate property insurance, what companies offer best coverage, value and service?

Here is how the ROBS 401k business funding arrangement works:A new C-corporation is established.Corporation sponsors a new 401k/PSP.The IRA funds are transferred to a new brokerage account opened for the 401k/PSP.The new real-estate operating company corporation issues stock shares to the 401k/PSP.The real-estate operating company must be an employee of the business and he or she may take a reasonable salary.The business owner's family members may be employees of the business and receive reasonable compensation for their services.To the extent that the corporation generates profits and elects to distribute those profits to the owners of the business, the percentage of the profits associated with the shares held in the 401k/PSP will flow back to the 401k/PSP brokerage account.