What willingness have you found HOAs to go for in terms of you verifying that their financials are sound, to decrease the odds of any surprise special assessments screwing with your cash-flow (eg, how do you ensure the HOA is budgeting for necessary maintenance)?

This makes the current deal very unattractive, but I think there is an opportunity here to greatly decrease expenses.I'm looking for ideas on how to separate utilities so each unit can pay for their own utilities.Water is charged a flat fee by the city (weird I know) so that can be just divided equally between units.Heating of the water (gas) - all comes out of the same water tanks, how difficult would it be to separate them by the unit?

Significant inefficiencies in previous management (was managed from afar) with significant opportunities to decrease expenses and decrease vacancy.

Almost every variable — active listings, pending listing, number of sales — started to decline in March and continued to decline through April and May.These initial declines can be attributed to the slow assimilation to new COVID standards in real estate, in addition to avoidance of health risks for a large portion of the population — and different levels of government weighing in and let’s be honest, slowing things down.Despite these other categories trending down, the median sales price of housing continued to grow for the Austin-Round Rock MSA throughout the entire pandemic.While this is true for Austin-Round Rock MSA, Travis county and Bastrop county carried the bulk of load.The City of Austin was the only dataset to see double digit increases in median price sold in every month except June, which saw a 9.7% increase year-over-year.Caldwell, Williamson, and Hays all saw a decrease in every variable across the board — number of home sales, listing activity, median price, and pending sales.

If you have housing expenses right now, you can aim to get a property you can househack, where you break even or decrease your monthly housing expenses.

The demand for this type of facility is unlikely to decrease.

It is an out of state duplex.I always hear people say that buying real estate can help decrease your taxes. 

But when we met them yesterday, they even asked us if there is any chance of rent decrease next year, oh my goodness! 

It decreases your risk (since your down payment is so low) and keeps the home in your backyard while you get your feet under you (you can always move after a few months, just need proper cause)

If you look at any charts you'll see that Tampa was one of the hottest markets in growth and one of the lowest among those in decrease.