Can I hold assets in my personal name, depreciate them on a schedule C in my personal name, and lease them to my LLC? Would that be advantageous?

To keep from showing a loss on the schedule C, I would have to lease them to my LLC for the same amount, or more, than the depreciation amount.

Any thoughts? Anyone else doing this?

The short answer honestly is that I do not know, however, unless you are talking about a lot of money you will likely be paying more for your accountant to figure it out than any tax break you will get on it