We did discuss as a board having a more hands on property management company but looking around the fees were quite high and the community liked keeping their HOA dues low.

If you have evidence that they knew about the termites for a long period of time and failed to report it, then you could charge them.

And what resources/websites do you like use to analyze a market for things like: job growth, population growth, unemployment rates, crime rate, what big companies/firms are there/moving in, etc.? 

Mortgage companies want to get rid of the low interest loans.

the local facebook groups and local realtors are a great place to start . they are able to populate reports for you by zipcode 

I'd suggest you also contact local property management companies as they may know people who are looking to buy places.

If there's no credit report or appraisal, then those loans cannot be sold on the secondary market (at least I don't know of any buyers for those types of loans).

I am trying to figure out how J and Dave got to $65,000 in the following section (I am reading the eBook version so page numbers won't correspond with the physical book):  Towards the end of Chapter 2; "Finally, notice that the owner equity in this business totals about $65,000; because John is sole owner of the business, that $65,000 is the value that John transfers to his PFS and can claim as his ownership value in the company.”Everything up to this point was clearly explained on how they got to the number, except this $65,000.

If the property is already reporting to your credit report, it will affect your DTI. 

Not guaranteed, but very safe and boring national level companies that will not go out of business anytime soon.