It varies by HOA but most that I have been involved with do not allow anyone but Board Members to attend regular meetings.

." - solve that without involving a C-corp.And if I'm not mistaken, if you buy in a land trust with an LLC as designated beneficiary, you can change that without changing title.You need specialized advice, both from lawyers and CPAs.

The rent-to-own option seems far too complex, involving 3 parties to depend on each other with seemingly a lot of liabilities (namely that the bank could call the loan).

Purchase price: $152,000 Cash invested: $12,000 Huge fixer upper with lots of budgeting involved in the rehab.

Unlikely a PM will want to get involved just to evict someone and in most states they can't legally represent you in court even if they wanted to.

I always make sure everyone involved understand my position.

How long have you been involved in this space.

When doing a 1031 exchange a qualified intermediary is required to be involved prior to the closing of the sale. 

The result is taxable income + penalties.With that said - there are great opportunities to use retirement accounts to grow in value and allow you to be involved in real estate.

Simply from what you have stated I would think of taking this in a couple directions, both would involve forming an LLC.