As someone who as owned a condo as investment, I steer clear of anything that has HOAs fees.  

Most (not all) people on the forums steer clear because of bad experiences with an HOA and converted primary residence.

If you are raising slaughterhouse steers for the meat market, then also produce soybeans for that market, and peaches for the fruit market.

And people here will generally steer you towards buy-at-any-cost since everyone here is a real estate investor, which isn't necessarily bad advice, but it could be extremely risky depending on your financial situation.

I have never clickbaited as I've always steered clear of going down that path. 

Best of luck and keep up the enthusiasm but these guys are steering you in the right direction.

Thought maybe I was missing something and had to ask the pros.So I think along with steering clear of this realtor (right about the disclosure or not his actions are unacceptable), I think I need to look for a different attorney for my next deal.

I also understood that some investors are steering clear of that area until the Mike Brown stuff fades away, so maybe that was part of the seller's motivation as well. 

@Jingmin ZhangThere are many clues as to whether a relationship with a new contractor will head south.Not necessarily the first one; but avoidance of, resistance to, tiptoeing around the subject of pulling permits or steering you to pull the permit yourself for work  the contractor is supposed to do is a clue that you may be dealing with the wrong contractor.If a contractor cannot simply go down to the building department without any urging from you and get a permit that they clearly post in public view on the job-site, things may be starting off on the wrong foot.There may be exceptions to this but I will not get into that now.

You might build a good relationship with the listing agent (they are selling the types of properties you want).I had an agent that kept steering me toward houses in the 150K range and I wanted houses under 100K.