I think your biggest issue with any "work-arounds" is going to be your legal liability and holding the proper insurance in case something goes wrong, which I'm going to assume you'd need to be properly licensed in order to be properly covered by insurance.

Is it smarter to hold onto the house and keep renting it out, or sell now and roll the equity into the new home?

I'm an active duty military member and our family has been moving around the country for the past 20 years so we're excited to begin buying some places we can hold onto.

Roll them all up and the averages are:purchase $154krenovate $47Ksell $232kThese are gross numbers, not including closing costs, borrowing costs, holding costs, licensing and permit costs, G&A, overhead, commissions, forward rate buy-downs, and lease-up fees, to name a few of the many expenses incurred. 

Supposedly they have had a deal for me in Florida that has had title issues that has been holding it up from closing.

My guess is that their mentors are similar, no barrier to entry, and no major organization or entity that holds them accountable for ethics. 

You are VERY easily able to open accounts remotely by just uploading your EIN doc and then once your biz account is open you can open additional accounts for things like holding your security deposits, reserves, etc.

Being a real estate forum everyone will tell you to hold forever and keep renting it out.

Also I feel buy and holds are harder to structure partnerships as its not that much money when split in between two people.

I am perfectly fine holding X amount in real estate.If I do see an opportunity another option is to lock it up and sell one of my existing if I think this property will perform or appreciate significantly more.