Why not just buy them, with down payments from your pot of money, as you find them?  

In that sense, you can't execute anything without planning or having a thought process, if you get the urge, you'll plan to get to the bathroom before you get to the pot.

Having funds is a great advantage over the don't have a pot to piss in crowd, however don't let it make you lazy as you can start buying lousy deals just because you can!

This is common stuff, I'm not sure what the goal is or how you are "helping" you might be stirring the pot for no reason as nothing is likely to happen unless the elderly lady wants to take some action. :)

Only litigation over the years is unwinding partnerships were minor partners were taking pot shots.. and those all got settled in mediation..

Too many hands in the pot always leads to disaster.  

Knowing your tenants is good and bad... they "should" behave... but you feel handicapped when they don't... are you really going to evict one of your friends when he loses his part time job at McDonalds for smoking pot in the bathroom and can't pay his rent for 3 months?

Pot luck is available on Craig's list of course... but it take a bit of sorting out.

You are fortunate that they have hired an ineffective law firm unable to competently handle their collections.In addition, I find it incredibly amusing that you complain about the "investors" in your neighborhood not paying their dues while you sit on a pot of money refusing to pay yours because the association attempted to collect your delinquent debt, because you don't like that you have to pay annually rather than monthly, and because the association won't pay police to patrol what police are already paid to patrol.I don't believe the members posting here are pro-HOA, I believe they are pro-being an adult and paying your debts.

Run away...run far away.If this was a poker game, you'd be looking at a "Jack High",and still feeding the pot.