Your personal experiences and suggestions would be incredibly helpful.If you have any recommendations or are a professional in any of these fields, I would love to hear from you.

As an example if your house was going to sell in two weeks for full price, and some random person came up to you and said I really want this house but I need six weeks to get you the money.

However, this is impacting what I can qualify for w/ the banks. 

You can express your willingness to offer a new lease to the more responsible tenant, but it's important to avoid getting involved in their personal issues.

Yep community banks hands down.. for best rates etc. 

It's a highly nuanced industry that isn't very regulated so you will need to know what you can and cannot do legally and then create some personalized guidelines around what you want to fund and what you want your returns to look like.

Even if you ended up renting to another person with some of those features.

Personally I like to be able to pull up to my properties and check on them.

Probably personal preference, but if anyone has a strong opinion, I'd love to hear it! 

If you are moving it from a personal name to an LLC there is an exemption form for taxes you also have to fill out and file along with transferring the deed.