If you have the capital to close all cash then by all means leave out the financing contingency to strengthen your offer but you need to be fully capable of closing cash if your loan falls through after lender's due diligence. 

: HOA president is on his way out (selling in a month or two), and somewhat disgruntled and belligerent, and trying to claim fraud / misappropriation of funds / screaming at Property Management to fix it and not issue an "unethical tax on the community" I'm favoring the third option, but have no idea how to work with the the HOA president, or how to help convey the seariousness of the HOA's financial position to the community - because I'm fairly certain if I fight with Property Management to go for the special assessment, the HOA president will put some serious effort into riling up the community and convincing them that we're robbing them blind. -- he's a loud talker, commands attention, and probably has the most and deepest personal connections throughout the community (I'll add, he has admittedly done a LOT of work himself in helping to maintain the community, we are in debt to him for that -- he just doesn't appreciate the seriousness of long term financial issues, and now he's on his way out).One more kicker -- the third member of our Board, the Secretary, just resigned for family & health reasons, so it's only me and the president for the near future.Does anyone out there have advice? 

You can fight some things and win, but then you run the risk of upsetting that particular inspector.

And being done out of state I would expect I would need a partner who is capable of doing the fixing portion, since I wouldn't be there in person and also not super handy.

You have to fight it out in court. 

Do not be involved in tenant selection unless you’re a professional who is willing and capable of taking on the liability.

Not worth fighting it as also the trustee has over $7k in the account as the borrowers wages are garnished.

Personally I’d rather take a loss for a year or longer than put up with some freeloading jerks living there for free while completely capable of paying their rent.

So went with attorney to fight the claim.

I’ll be self managing from afar so need remote programming capabilities for both.