@Jesse Jones-Smithhi. i tend not to advise people on personal residence items because... it's too personal. so i'll just pick one thing you mentioned and provide a comment. 

I'll preface by saying I'm not a tax expert, but just went through a cost segregation as a REPS and this was my view.The benefit from pulling out these items coupled with the bonus depreciation far outweighs any incrementally higher taxes in later years, by quite a large margin. 

And the bigger item is the calling out of expecting the series of rate cuts coming.

Develop an itemized list of the various risks specific to your proposed investment, and the cost to you of each.4.

Generally people might budget 15% of incoming rent for these items.

Development in the best situation carries a ton of risk.  

If you are buying it using seller carried you might be able to use a HELOC to pull out some of the equity but not sure how the refi.

After analyzing our reviews with Chat GPT (something we should all be doing), we found this was the most commonly mentioned item in our 5-star reviews.

The exception is the Association may, “…authorize such services on the Common Areas as it deems appropriate for the enjoyment of the Common Areas or for the benefit of the Members.”Section 5 – Nuisance – states, “No noxious or offensive trade or activity shall be carried on upon any Lot … which may be, or may become an annoyance or nuisance to the neighborhood, or which shall, in any way, interfere with the quiet enjoyment of each of the Owners of his respective Dwelling…”Feel free to think, “you fool!

They charge $1500, get you into the door, using you to find a deal, setting up partnership to make you carry 100% debt and all the risk, while ripoff 80% ownership (include the 10% for sponsorship to get loan)You definitely can get some useful information from their event but do deal with them?