Take time to inform yourself, particularly when working with an HOA, and even then you may need to be persistent to achieve the desired outcome.

It definitely takes a ton of persistence!

If you know your numbers and make an offer in line with the bottom of your scale, you'll probably know within a week most likely if it was rejected.I think persistence and a sharp eye may be key here.

Properties have recently been slow to break ground with higher financing costs, persistently high construction costs, and slowing demand.

As mentioned above, you need to be persistent and shop around but they are available. 

Persistence wins everytime, sometimes when I have to deal with to many no's at once I take a break and do something fun for 30 minutes to an hour and get back to it with more ethusiam than I started with.

This could have gotten ugly if we didn't have a cushion.Stay with It/Be Persistent with Sellers: After four months in and not being close to locking in a deal, there were some very stressful days and nights, but we continued using and trying methods that other successful investors were doing and eventually things turned. 

44104 and Ohio City may be a very long 6 miles away from each other but the neighborhood contrasts are extreme trust me...... that is unless the mayor persists on continued cuts to safety forces.

Be persistent, patient, wise, and humble.

I'm a persistent individual and will keep doing it until I get a deal, and then do it again and again.