There are experienced PM's on here such as myself willing to coach and give advice. 

Each should be able to operate on its own.

That's the step I'm on to confirm what I believe are the following key items:1.

Well if you go together it could split it and get basically nothing - spend $2-3k file a lawsuit and get a judgment you are first in line… Also in many instances you can slap that judgment on his personal residence as well and foreclose on that.

@Brie Schmidt I came on to pick your brain.

More like one person on the HOA is opposed.  

My thought is to take a compiled list of property addresses saved in Excel and then run data scrape from Zillow and Redfin on each of those addresses, pulling the property details back into excel and into the appropriate table I have set up. 

Look up local investors on social media and follow them and comment and like their posts so they get used to seeing your name.

Best experience is hand on training, and not some workshop making you go back to pay for free information online. 

I funded a ADU project on a property, the city found a loophole to restrict ADU to lots of 17K or more and huge set backs (property line to housing wall).