After that you will be able to easily find a lender to do a refi for you using 30 year terms.I understand you guys probably prefer to leave them in the LLC for asset protection but unfortunately that doesn't jive with your goal of refinancing your money out of them.

And I could not do it without the faith and commitment of my banks and financial partners. 

That being said it has been a huge asset to me.

It will help with asset protection, plus you can transfer your deeds to your LLC name.

Landlording is still a cool gig though due to the financial security and independent. 

Unfortunately, the work to payoff ratio is not cutting it for me financially.

It all depends on what kind of asset class you're looking to hold- some people will say that higher class properties will bring about better tenants and less hassles (plus often times they tend to be newer constructions, so one can say there will be less maintenance issues).

Protection and shielding of personal assets but I believe you already knew that.

I am about to pull the trigger on a condo in Pasadena, CA and upon digging into the financials of the HOA discovered that they are funded at about 30% of what the third party HOA analysis firm would consider a full reserve.

Aside from simple diversification, I'm excited about the other positives about the RE asset class specifically, and I'm just soaking up information, looking to learn and network with people in general here on BP and specifically here in the SD market.