Which is why you are having a hard time.If it is your first property and you are not looking to do a flip, it is not worth trying to necessarily get the loan under an LLC.Most first time real investors don't have much asset (if any) to protect to be hugely concerned about the liabilities of owning real estates.When you get to a point where you have a lot of assets or significants to protect, you should start to seriously or solely considered doing it under an LLC.Scott Trench wrote a great article, take a look at it.https://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2015/06/0...

I have most of my money in the market and cash assets, and I do actively manage it because I can do it from work and it does not disturb my coworkers.  

Does anyone have experience with Five Brothers asset managers?

Now, if the PM company is saying that the asset needs a lot of hands-on management, and they require someone to be on site daily because it is in a Class D area for instance then maybe that would warrant such a high fee. 

As far as my goals are concerned, I have a few thoughts in mind: 1) I would like to get in touch with a few wholesalers in the area so that I can more quickly and efficiently acquire properties to continue my flipping business,2) I would like to acquire multi family residences as investments to hold and rent,3) I would like to learn more about financing options or best avenues to obtain capital as I do not have a large amount of cash sitting to be used for my business,4) I am interested in syndication deals,5) I would like to become more involved with the local real estate groups,6) Any advice of best ways to use BiggerPockets is always appreciated.Looking forward to hearing your responses and chatting.

Again, I am not in this for income, strictly for a good retirement and assets to leave the kids. 

@Cole MitchellYou can certainly sell an asset by an S-corp to the shareholders as long as the sale is at an arms length transactions.The questions is should you.If you plan to acquire it in an S-corp(you will be forgoing the section 121 exclusion which you said you are okay with) if you are going to just sell it within a year - you should just sell it directly from the S-corp.Transferring the property from the S-corp to you personally and then eventually the buyers will cost more in title work.

Many will ask for proof of liquid assets in the form of bank statements.

A good realtor can be a great asset and definitely be worth the cost in commissions, but bad ones can potentially crush profits.

As well as that side of due diligence, I reckon your greatest asset will be: having the right Property Manager.