This number influences ROI the most.Price around $200,000 all in.  

It is just that market cycles run past presidential terms and are influenced by many factors.

In the meantime, look up, be prudent, and do the right thing by all those in your sphere of influence, enjoy spending time with your spouses and your children.

By buying into that HOA, you have now invited 100 complete strangers into your investment, whether they know anything about property management or money management or are fiscally responsible.Now, any one of them can attempt to get onto the board of the HOA. 

If you were in an A or B rental, then the colors and decor may be more of an influence... 

Imo, it really is the journey and not the destination and I'd trade it all to be able to do it again (I'd have to be young again though - no deal on just starting over as of right now)  haha.Good luck and please update this thread with your decision as I'm sure your logic will help influence my own.

I'd rather be fiscally sound, with a large net worth, then to not be able to sleep at night because I'm leveraged.   

People will leave when it suits them but you can try to at  least influence timing.

To diminish that by inferring person C has good credit but is assumed to be fiscally irresponsible is silly. 

This influences my philosophy.