-I hear condos are now charging outrageous amount of money for association fees and costs and people are selling their properties on account of this.

(The property’s home state and your state of tax residence will both want money if they collect income tax.)If the property is only in his name you avoid all the taxes by waiting until his death to give your daughter the property.

If you pick your JV correctly you can make a lot of money.

You have to do your due diligence up front, but once you put your money in it is very passive and you just get your monthly or quarterly return (if you picked a good investment).

It may not make sense for your personal finances if over invest and end up with a house hack option that costs more money than somewhere you could live on your own.2.

If you want to spend the money, you can split the water. 

I didn't have a lot of money- but I could have been smarter about it.

I trust my agent but I also would like to be able to verify what they told me was true especially when it cost me more money.

My idea was to establish myself with some paid-off, cash flowing properties to make leveraging them for more investments a lot easier.I'd like to flip some houses to generate some cash, but  even knowing what I know I'm struggling to see how to make money doing so. 

If you have no debt and can save up a bit more money, before getting to the equity loan.