Similar with Florida HOA cost increases due to Mandated structure inspections and subsequent repairs.  

My experience was getting my personal credit utilization high as I bought product for my business, and subsequently my FICO went low; therefore financing was increasingly difficult. 

Any subsequent property can also be a vacation home if it is 65 miles away.

Would you recommend taking a HELOC instead for my subsequent investment?  

There are no facts yet as apparently no subsequent sale has happened.

But on any subsequent properties using your VA loan, with 0 down it's 3.3%, and with 5% down it's still only 1.5%.Wait what, you can you use your VA loan more than once?

Unfortunately, I have not come across any seminar that wouldn’t attempt to get me to sign up for hundreds/thousands of dollars’ “worth” of a workshop, where I’d subsequently likely be pitched tens of thousands of dollars “worth” of additional “education” and alleged mentorship.

I flew in unexpectedly to confirm and subsequently fired him. 

In this scenario, each member doesn’t actually own real estate, they own a business (that owns real estate).If that is the case you have two options: 1) The LLC performs the 1031 exchange and continues to achieve the goals of the managers through changes or details added to the operating agreement and subsequently consider dissolving the LLC. 2) You dissolve the LLC and reform as Tenants in Common *prior* to the sale of the property.

In this case you may want to refinance your VA loan on your prior property to restore your original VA entitlement to full prior to your purchase.You can use VA financing for up to 4 units with 100% LTV or 0% down but the subsequent or second use may have up to 1.25-3.30% VA funding fee ( points financed into the new loan) unless if you have a disability rating of 10% of greater on your certificate of eligibility or your COE shows "exempt-eligible veteran."