I have a few more questions if you might share your insight.I was researching last night, and stumbled upon 1031 exchanges. 

You can avoid paying capital gains by using 1031 exchange and buy a better performing property.

Instead of the offer being just about exchanging a certain number of dollars for a house, it becomes a solution for a problem and makes it much more powerful.

From there get to know some local investors and try and find some way to bring something to the table in exchange for a little mentoring.

I am currently reading 'currency wars' and 'death of money' by same author -- interesting stuff.

Offer to help other investors in any way possible in exchange for the investor sharing his/her knowledge.

And I would highly recommend you find a local active investor who you can provide value to (for free), in exchange of them helping you learn the ropes. 

You could mentor them to help them become successful in exchange for a percentage of their deals. 

I leave the LLC as is (single member-only me) and we would have an agreement that he loans the money  to the LLC in exchange for 40% of profits on the deals.

With economies outside the US slowing, exports getting more expensive in their destination currencies and ever cheaper (in exchange rate) outsourcing costs it’s hard to see how we’re going to generate much wage growth and/or inflation that would spur the Fed to raise rates materially.