My primary goal is to find an investor friendly intuition that I can build a relationship with located in or around Twin Cities. 

Like Home Depot, State Farm, Wells Fargo, Intuit, etc. 

My intuition is telling me that unless the HOA has a clear process in place, this will be way more of a PITA than it is worth. 

Should be intuitive but for some reason I can’t get it to work.

In my world, "subdividing" doesn't create a "subdivision" which seems counter intuitive.

I just have an intuition that I'm not accounting for something here :) 

See below for a nice summary of the housing market over the last 5 recessions:Housing in previous recessionsIt’s somewhat counter-intuitive, but recessions don’t necessarily mean bad things for the housing market.

@Fletcher ClardyI shall do my best to help people with their homes and orchestrate my ability to teach others to become greater real estate investorsI determine my goals by my intuition and ability to become successful as well as my ability to make people amazingKeeping track of myself everyday to improve more and more than the day before and becoming amazing as well as my partner to keep me in check and I do the same on to him.

For example, the lead registration process available at MDE Renewal is very non-intuitive and time consuming.   

I know it's somewhat counter-intuitive, but wouldn't it be better to recognize the opportunity before anyone else does, in which case there wouldn't be any comps?