Thanks, appreciate it   Feel free to use your thread as a sounding board. 

Plus, I like to get on the HOA boards and that's fun, too. 

The June 2024 market report from the Austin Board of REALTORS® (ABoR) shows that the median home price in the City of Austin decreased 1.6% to $600,000 over the past 12 months.

Need a new roof in a 3-5 years, you probably want to be pretty liquid (year long CD, Money Market, maybe very short term bond fund etc) for those funds.On a condo board 15 years ago, I  was once able to get us into some nice CD's a decade ago that laddered with the useful life of components.

If you want to nit-pick reality, I guess I could get on-board… but the general concept is that you make allowances for the things you are talking about.  

I have tried to mitigate the problem for weeks now and have even addressed it with the HOA and Board of Directors because it’s a building problem that is invading my unit now.  

Keep learning through reading, listening to talks, taking online classes, and chatting on online boards.

It's true that demand seems to be low across the board this year for vacation or travel rentals.

I've House Hacked as both a Live-In Landlord (Boarding house law) and as an owner occupied in a 4 unit apartment building, etc..Here is some quick and dirty tricks and tips!

That is why designations are very important to me.As far as vetting, NARPM does do vet certain things about a person (licensing for example) and they do have a process where a person can file a complain through them about a member (much like the Board of Realtors).