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

Hey guys,Former full-time musician turned corporate sucker turned part-time amateur real estate investor. 

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He's not looking to stay in the corporate world forever so he's looking to buy as many properties now while financing is cheap and he can actually get it.  

I say this because - at 27 years old, 10 years in the hotel industry (on both corporate and property levels), a handful of international consulting projects with small hotels and restaurants, and my own operating business of tourist apartments - I'm not sure where I'd get a certification like that, nor that I'd deem myself an "industry expert".

My question is this:  Does it make sense to set up a corporation and conduct all my RE business through it?  

The only people claiming you can do it are the guys asking you for $1500 to sell you a shelf corp or seasoned line of credit.

A fiduciary corporate trustee (in SD, UT, NV, or AK) provides administrative duties in compliance with trust situs requirements.The irrevocable trust, which maintains fully discretionary distributions with no ascertainable standard and meets the requirements of the Restatement (Third) of Trusts along with those of 11 USC 541(c)(2) and is "a restriction on the transfer of a beneficial interest of the debtor in a trust that is enforceable under applicable nonbankruptcy law is enforceable in a case under this title" is fully judgment-proof against state and federal claims.  

Does anyone know at what rate you are taxed when you sell stockholder shares in a S corporation?  

Keeping the books will become complicated and you will be subjecting your real estate profits to your corporate tax rate.