Send a certified letter to landlord quoting the state law and time frame, and offer to accept "only" your full damage deposit in exchange for dropping the court date.

I'm looking to lower some expenses since interest rates have risen.

You can see this information when you ask for the Repair and Reserves Analysis report from the HOA.Stick with Low-rise type of condos, the fees tend to be lower.

The bigger issue you're going to run into Andy is most lenders have a limit on how many mortgages you can have, and they typically offer lower LTV's when doing HELOCs on rental properties. 

REFI=not so much....I dont understand the refinance portion of this as clearly as the others...are you refinancing it after a certain time frame?

Offer lower than fair market value What was the outcome?

Something with high execution risk like ground up construction or heavy value add, is going to be much more susceptible to a downturn than something like a core real estate investment that has much lower execution risk.As a conservative investor, at this stage of the cycle, I don't invest in anything unless I can run a recession stress test on it.

I've looked at areas with lower population counts and have been concerned with overall lack of rentability and the lack of other similar rentals in the area.

I presume the lower tenants are cranking it up and the upper tenant is hot. 

So, to still buy in that winter time frame and fill in the empty renting space in between, would it work to just airbnb that time period?