I found when buying property a lot of the time in the first couple months I will take care of any deferred maintenance issues and do preventative maintenance as well.

I'd recommend you work with a tax professional to make sure everything's done right because it just gets more expensive to fix things later on...that whole "ounce of prevention" thing.

The more complex aspects include circumnavigating the security measures intended to prevent scraping from occurring.

[@Tim Morales, what's preventing you going straight to conventional Refi?]

While California Law prohibits HOAs from preventing solar panel installations, how do I fight this issue to get the HOA to approve my roof to be replaced with composite shingle?

To prevent this in the future, please just write a custom message to each person that you try to contact on BiggerPockets!

@Andrew Postell @Jorge Ruiz, 1) what would prevent someone from acquiring, say, 10 houses in a single year by recycling the same initial all-cash-purchase money 10 times with this strategy of having your own LLC provide your mortgage and getting that existing mortgage refinanced by a bank within days or weeks of purchasing?

Unless there's an actual provision in your specific loan agreement that prevents you from renting it out for 1 year, it's not an actual requirement, just "gouge," to use the military jargon, that people like to throw around as a rule of thumb.The point of the VA Loan is to provide service members and veterans the opportunity to purchase a primary residence. 

Put your approval standards on your application, which may prevent some from even turning it in.You only need one qualified applicant.

In order to prevent you contractor from having to front your project cost, we like to use phone orders or we put the list together the week prior to tell you exactly what we plan to buy so you can deposit just that amount.