This will quickly give you a rough gauge of expected turnover/problems you might inherit.  

The only ways that I know of to do what you are wanting to do is to either:1) Close in your personal name and then quick claim deed the property to your LLC. 

But you could have the best rental prop in the best market turn into a money pit real quick if the people you trust to manage that investment drop the ball.

Pretty quickly

@Jay McCreary as veterans we have an awesome opportunity to use the benefits of the VA Loan to begin our real estate investing journeys much more quickly and effectively than those who do not have access to VA Loans. 

That generally ended their sales pitch fairly quickly. 😉 Again, the only thing I wish I'd made more of a priority was accessing that equity while in an easier position to do so from a banks perspective.

Account Closed - I'm no expert here, but here's my quick brainstorm.

I do have two quick questions:1) I have just finished reading the ABCs of Real Estate Investing by Ken McElroy.

Quick background check...

There’s a lot of competition in Portland so it was hard at first and we did not get properties as quickly as we projected to but once we got going, referrals and word of mouth helped us a lot.