I purchased an investment home under my personal name as my LLC had not been established yet, now wanting to transfer to my LLC.

Establish a relationship with them and learn their numbers and it will make it much easier to crunch numbers if they can not get out there right away and you need to make an offer.

Has anyone established a company (llc or other) to manage your own properties?

Most turnkey operations also have excellent in-house management as well as real, true and established boots on the ground teams in place to help the buyer protect they’re investment and thereby lowering the investors risk.

We are in a place where cost of new construction is just about to come at par from buying established .. the build costs for an average 4 bed 2 bath house with undercover area of 200 sqm or so is presently sitting at 400K AUD this in addition to the land costs.

Establish some "safeguards" to keep them honest and consistently check their work.

Last month city established a tax incentive district on neighborhood.  

I am starting my real estate investing journey and have been hitting a wall with the type of entity that I should establish to start my business, such as an LLC.

I use a scoring system where applicants gain and lose points and their total either meets or falls short of my established line in the sand.

You squire the deal and they dispo the deal to their established buyers.