I thought I was losing my mind a bit and wondering if it ever existed in the first place HAH.

They didn't exist. 

But then in a year, you could buy another primary residence with your VA secondary/bonus entitlement with $0 down (yes having 2 VA loans at once), and keep and rent out your existing home.

I’ve been in this business a long time, and I know firsthand how overwhelming that first deal can feel—especially when it comes to financing.

If the note was at 4% your interest only payments would be $4,833.33 a month and you would be responsible for property tax, and other incidents of ownership but receive depreciation of existing structures and interest expense as tax deductions.

The issue is that the lender  is looking for comps for a duplex, where 2 units were packaged together and sold together, but no comps exist for that in this neighborhood since all townhomes are being built and sold individually. 

I feel like i am in this awkward in the middle stage where I still need to work my corporate job, but right on the cusp to make real estate my fulltime job.   

So feel free to reach out to me with specific questions you may have.

Does someone have experience buying a foreclosed property and keeping the existing person/family living there and converting to a tenant? 

LLC or Land Trust vesting is never stopping the existing lender from calling the loan, in fact the opposite, it may trigger it.