Best experience is hand on training, and not some workshop making you go back to pay for free information online. 

When researching online, it looks there are some instances where non-vets can assume VA loans, but the veteran's entitlement would remain tied to the loan.How common is this and are there ever situations when this a win-win for both sides?

Sell, get the tax savings while you can.

This can be helpful if you expect your property to become profitable soon.Save It for Later: If you don’t use it this year, you can save the depreciation for future years when you have more rental income.

As others noted, you are likely limited in what you can legally do anyways, so you won't be saving a ton, and depending on how you value your time, it will likely be cheaper to higher professionals to do it anyways.

Or can you still run everything through your personal return (just want to make sure that I can deduct things such as HOA fees which I can do if it is a rental).2) If I do decide to run everything thru my personal tax return (save on LLC fees), should I at the least set up a separate bank account to track costs separately?

Make use of its features like online rent collection, maintenance requests, and tenant screening.Local Resources: Consider joining the Central Indiana Real Estate Investors Association (CIREIA).

There are some great on-line real estate courses, and I have found the information within them has really been helpful for my investment business.

We saved Settlement Statements from every closing and one of our former partners owned a national title company, so we had enough closing cost data to build a models for each state on the buy and sell side of the note buys.

But he did take a loss that set his family back quite a bit, caused a lot of stress in his marriage, prevented them from being able to buy the new home his wife wanted with the right number of bedrooms for his kids, set him back years in saving for retirement and buying investment properties that could have made him money instead of losing money, etc.