That was an incredible gift that they gave me.

This is a great gift.It is incredibly helpful to look poor at all times in the self-managed landlording business.

Palm Springs has a really wide range of property types/values, are you thinking SFR's or condo's again? 

.#2 If you have the time, drive, and ability to shop your own deal and have access to a wide lender base - you may very well be better suited to broker your own deal for the same reason as #1.

In hindsight, this was incredibly short-sighted by me as I have a network of people around me who are more than willing to help.

@Maggie Shadburn I ended up finding out that I bought a double wide trailer.

In a city with this much old housing stock it would seem to cause an incredible burden on landlords all having to upgrade their windows.

It was about 10 ft. wide by 60 ft. deep.

My boards have a 3-2 split on one board and a 5-4 split on the other as an investor/occupant ratio (yep, both are majority investor), but based on my discussions with other people, that is incredibly rare.They may actually consider what you're asking, but depending on how their rules are written, may have to put it out to a homeowner vote where it is likely to fail for all the reasons I mention above.The most important reason being that investors don't vote. 

If site is incredible and best for the area but does not meet all of their layout criteria they might manipulate building size or layout to fit the site.If site and location is a choice among many and does not line up well with their site criteria and plans with hurdles to overcome they might pass on it.Sometimes they can talk to you directly and other times they will pass it on to their tenant rep broker to scrub the site further and then if it still looks good the tenant rep broker talks to their client the company and then they contact you to discuss further and a possible LOI.It's not how they all work but typical from what I have seen.