Investors buy in an HOA because properties are cheap, but then they quickly realize Nazis and busy-bodies run the HOA.You can try to build a coalition of owners and fight back against the charge, but it's unlikely to change.

I see we're wearing our busy-body bossy pants today.  

Contractors.Except we called it " buying a beat up hose & selling it for a profit"HGTV and GURUS  couldn't make it sound trendy though  ROFLMAO  More fun facts; The oldest contractor licensing body in the United States is the California License Board founded in 1929.Contractors are called contractors because we write Contracts.

I move along past the wins very quickly but sit with the normal and foreseeable challenges/issues for a really long time (and react like they came out of nowhere even though they are normal and did not).I've always been tempted to scoop up a house back home in IL.

If this happens again with the most recent report, it could indeed alter market expectations for the Fed's mid-term trajectory, potentially putting aggressive rate cuts back on the table.In the short term, though, the market reacts strongly to the initial data, and the Fed remains in a "higher for longer" stance regarding rates.

Ladies who have body lotion and other stuff on will jump right in the hot tub without rinsing it off.  

I do not think this topic has been discussed here on BP so let me throw it out there - lets talk about finding the buried bodies. 

It became everything from a drug den to sex trafficking to an illegal auto body shop.

If you know this and just try to take a pause before reacting, the results in life and investing will be drastically different.One big thing I changed in my life was this: I used to love hammering someone in an email response, but it never led to anything other than more emails.

Pick the argument you like better but realize no body knows.