Either way, gifting them the house at some point and the knowledge and understanding of assets, patience, responsibility, cooperation, budgeting, etc...can't be a bad thing.

If you have the cash and cooperative tenants, you can  exchange "cash for keys" and instantly build equity.

@Tom Cooper great meeting you as well!

if I were young like you and had a cooperative spouse, keep buying the owner occupied 4 plexes as long as your lender will finance owner occupied.  

Contractor and I are working together cooperatively and we are moving forward with the project. 

If so, they are legally bound to provide copies of meeting minutes, financials and other documents upon request.You are likely correct in that issues with the HOA may cause problems when trying to sell the property as the lenders will look at financials, reserves, etc. to ensure everything is above board.If you can't get cooperation among other owners to make a change, and are truly being stonewalled, then it is going to be time to get legal representation. 

The title company I was dealing with was not very cooperative with doing transactional funding and informed me that the deal wasn't going to work.

She thinks that there was a breach of contract because the short sale was not accomplished in 2 months and instead of suing him, is just trying to get us out and is not cooperating with getting a short sale done. 

Here in NYC we have a lot of Coops in which you purchase shares in the cooperative and do not have a deed for real property.

Any advertising, commission splits with cooperating brokers, etc. should come out of that fee.