In CA currently only MF properties are rent controlled.

Creative strategies like lease options allow investors to control properties without owning them upfront.

It’s a short dead end road so I have this notion to own the whole street and control the look and quality of the neighborhood . 

As a new investor, your best bet is to start small with an app like DealMachine or Propstream so you have direct control of your options.

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Something is missing...if there isn't a Board and the HOA (or I assume more likely a COA) is newly formed then why isn't the developer still in control of the HOA?

Totally out of control.

vs. needing to get checkbook control set up?

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