One guy, Zack I believe claims you need to go to his seminar to learn how the new President changes the landscape of investing opportunities.HOG WASH!

I am proficient in data mining and business intelligence, and could make great use of those skills if I have a solid data source (demographic, economic, regional/location sales history, etc).I am eager to start my real estate investing journey, and start sharing knowledge with y'all!

Hi Josh,I love AZ and the areas you mentioned.PHX is a sister city to Charlotte NC so our price points and RE are similar.Yes even SFHs in subdivisions will have HOAs. as does EVERY CONDO/TH complex.Before you decide-- find out EXACTLY what the HOA covers.In condos/th here, the norm is to coverall yard work, landscaping, EXTERIOR MAINTENANCE (love that!)

How did you deal with landscaping in the winter?  

Our visitors would say how "neat" and "cute"/ "quaint" the community was and really liked the space as the whole tiny houses concept is hot these days.So, we reached out to a local college business school and recruited some students to do a market study for us and found that we just might be able to make the tiny space concept work on this property.Instead of spending a lot of dollars to sweep the property and build it from scratch (never-mind finagling the financing for such an undertaking), we were able to spend a fraction of the cost to renovate these units with a great response and a good return.In addition to learning that the tiny home concept may work for many demographics, we also found that the 55 and older community may be very receptive to these types of units.

Long story short, this house is our first time doing a flip, so we are cash-out refi'ing in order to pay off some hard money loans and finishing some landscaping work before putting it on the market (lucky for us we had a substantial profit margin!!).

I know I'm looking at things like population growth, leading employers, home sales prices, demographics, etc.

And you walk a fine line as disputes with neighbors may not bode well long term.Another short term adaptation would be to fix up and segregate your unit some, maybe with a small fence or landscaping.

Association needs to pay for insurance, repairs, maintenance, cleaning, landscaping; be sure that figure is accurate or figure out why it is so low. repost your new screenshot... 

Vacancy factor, maintenance factor, landscaping (your tenants most likely won't keep up with it), garbage service, CapEx, taxes, insurance and HOA if any.