Which many times results in a flood of tenants moving in/iout at the same time,  pure stress.  

The reason I don't is purely selfish: since my husband is an agent, we can use the referral system to officially refer a potential buyer/seller (if they want) directly to the agent who we use for our deals. 

The real test of a lender to loan you in pure entity, is to apply without your SSN in all documentation you send them only EIN, that is the only way to know that they are lending you to your entity and not based on your personal, and of course, NO INDEMNITY CLAUSE whatsoever.

I would like to refinance in my LLC name without providing personal credit or info, purely in the LLC's name that the property was purchased using.  

If you're looking for a pure math answer, plug in the expected cashflows for each approach into the NPV calculation, and select the answer that has a higher net present value.

my point of viewI'm one of those people that really like the grey area of taxationdepending on how you have your rental portfolio laid out and what type of entity you have for your properties this is a pure wash- tax deduction for maintenance, if you go a step further and say the pool needs new decking then it falls under improvement ect...it all depends on where you place the capital on the form to make it a deductionenjoy

You may be thinking purely of the property-finding aspect, but there's a lot more to consider.First off, as an unrepresented buyer, the only sellers who will take you seriously are usually going to be FSBO's, who may not know any better, or scumbags who know they can take wild advantage of you - any listing agent worth their salt is going to see an unrepresented buyer as a tremendous liability and amount of work for themselves and their seller. 

This is pure cash flow that I am missing out on.

Tub refinishing is almost purely cosmetic.

I closed on my first pure rental property, a two-family home, back in June and unexpectedly had both tenants move out by the end of July.