It's not a quick fix, but it was nice to discover that I could empower my business with its own business credit! 

Your association dues as an agent may come with a lot of tools, data, and resources to empower you to be a better investor.

You are free to tell them at any point, for no particular reason to pound sand and withdraw your funds/time/commitment.Working this hard to "prove them wrong" when you don't have to actually empowers his position, belittles your position, and is a waste of time and energy in my opinion.

-The value of the property is roughly $30k more than the sale price, which would empower me to secure an equity loan, and I could pay the private loan (gift) off after that six months.

Did I also mention that most HOAs are empowered to require "special assessment fees" for common expenses that you probably havent accounted for in your proforma?

You decide what your going to do, where, and then put in the work to build that team, than empower that team to do what set out to do. 

I have had many uniquely empowering experiences regarding self-education.

But now, today, we have noobs galore taking a snippet of info and assuming an entire narrative from it, empowered by novice agents galore with experience measured in weeks or months.

Lots of good advice given here from others to help you both feel more empowered!

It is the net-SHORTAGE, and or the BALANCED supply-demand that is EMPOWERING the operational finances of, which is MONITIZATION, and that "profit" is what intones the VALUE for investors.