My background is business and supply chain management.

Maybe I could put one of those rain chain things and say it's a decrotkve fountaine...is it possible to roll the price of a special assessment into closing costs if I can't afford to pay it before I put the condo on the market? 

Why would you ignore that while putting all your eggs in one basket.I would put $100K down on a 2-4 plex, $100K into 3% CDs and gold stocks to weather this trade war storm (2018), and put the last $100K into my own business as a LLC that could be used in Year 3 to play in commercial real estate (5 units or more).In the mean time shoot for a 80+ business score and 720+ personal credit score while seeing if we're heading into a recession.

@Travis Cheney BiggerPockets is a gold mine. 

You know I’m a dreamer, but my heart’s of gold.

Take Yale’s endowment—considered the gold standard for its exceptional performance; 10% of its investment portfolio is allocated to real estate.

The mods have a trace chained to my butt and follow me every post I make to delete the inappropriate ones.

There are blocks that are gold mines; while there are other blocks that are terrible investments.

Having a great OnSite manager is like finding gold!

If its an auction dot com on line auction and not a trustee sale then no you have to close then sell. cant assign contracts with those folks. this specifically keeps the wholesalers at bey and allows investors a chance to go direct with out those pesky daisy chain deals.Most cant do a 15 day close either.. unless they are pro's IE have the cash in the bank and know how to do their own title searchs or have a premier account with thier title company that will fast track and do a clsoing in 3 days or so..