You can even be under contract to buy within or before your 45 day period even starts.

Be sure to check out the free tools BP provides to help analyze deals you may have and also market insights.

You can win most tax appeals when your taxes are just out of whack for comparable properties so if you can find examples of similar properties with lower taxes, that is the only way you will win.

Hi Elimar, glad to have you as a part of this awesome community!

I would be happy to have a call sometime to discuss your plans and see what I can do to help avoid some of the mistakes and also what to look for in this market as it is very competitive. 

You are way ahead of your peers who think they can scale and quit at 20 so great job.Go to real estate investing meetups, as many as you can, and meet other investors and ask good questions.

Quote from @Kadia Lawrence: You can.

The MTR industry has bit of a pull back but if you are priced well and your tenants are not putting much out for a SD than maybe look at the property features then.

If you're still living in it, you can rent it out by the room to multiple individuals or even as a live-in STR depending on your risk tolerance & city ordinances. 

In those cases, if the HOA assessment is a direct result of the insured loss, it can kick in a specified amount towards the individual HOA members portion of the assessment.