HOA is this something we can write off

[Brett Danehey]

Question, as a person who knew nothing 9 months ago about real estate investing I bought a primary residence for the short term which is a condo that has a HOA. When I'm looking at buying a new place next year, I was doing the numbers on this condo, and the HOA kills it. Am I able to write off the HOA an expense on the back end each year as doing business?