We are planning to do our first deal(s) before the end of 2015.I currently have a well paying job with a reasonably high net worth and we have great credit so we expect to be able to get favorable loan terms.We are primarily looking at buy and hold single family rental properties as well as smaller multi-family/apartment opportunities (2-20 units to start).We intend to form a corporation to hold our properties and gain tax benefits.However, we are talking about doing this full time (I would quit my job at some point) and we were unsure what the impact of this decision might be on our ability to get loans.  

Since I bought it in 2006, I have rented it as a furnished unit to corporate execs. 

Added complication:  the company that cut the check to the seller cut it in the full amount and is no longer part of the corporate title company that I am having to work with. 

I used to know a general contractor, but I think he has a corporate job now.

Given that multi-unit properties are nowadays usually owned by some sort of corporate entity, who's mailing address may be a seldom checked PO box, my thinking is that this is a low probability of success operation, given the costs.

I would always recommend Americans basing their RE portfolios in the USA, at least to start...worst case scenario, you can always come back and manage it yourself.Long term thinking, getting paid rent in USD will allows provide that "location independence/global arbitrage" strategy where even just a $1000/monthly cash flow from your US based rentals will provide a very reasonable standard of living in many South East Asia countries.Lots of ways to attack it.  

I did corporate America for the next 4 years, and hated it.

As a matter of fact if the state government keeps increasing property tax and corporate tax the cost of doing business will become unsustainable for many small and medium businesses.

The major brokerages are probably much more rigid around having their agents conform to the corporate brand/image and all of the things associated with them, particularly their agents, and especially the agents on the newer end of the scale.

But to truly have a viable "corporate veil", you'd have to keep separate books and bank accounts for each company.