I’ve been wanting to star an llc and move it under that, but I would burn my cash reserves to do it.  

I know that I am a compasionate man too and have burned myself more than once not being as firm as I should.

Are they burning bridges with buyers by giving out bad deals?

It's a super useful tool to help trim fat in a business.No matter what your business is or what you invest in, it's likely that 20% of your products/clients/properties/etc generate 80% of your revenue.

Or focus more on transactional real estate like flipping/wholetailing, or an ancillary RE adjacent business (hard money lending, brokerage, mortgages, RE tech, dumpster biz, etc.).If I got bored with it or burned out, I might shift to more passive parts of REI like syndications or NNN leases. 

I have been burned by this before, I bought a property that was being used as a triplex, and the county zoning had it listed as a triplex for use, when I went to renovate the property the local city government said I had to rehab it to a duplex as that was what their zoning called for.

More COs may be required if there are other fuel burning appliances besides one furnace.

I think that this is a point that a lot of investors hit though, where they burn through their dry powder and the next time they get more, they are much more cash strategic about it. 

I am just entering Real Estate because I am burned OUT from my current work!

If guests burn through 500 gallons of water quickly, it doesn't matter because the pump fills it back up overnight.