But with the right house or unit solid, returns can still be accomplished. 

@AnnMarie BacchusThere are some really great responses.

Overall, grateful you took the time to respond to the little guys like me.I think that your evaluation of the cash flow perspective in your response is a good forecast of how I should be viewing this investment property, even as I use it as a house hack in (maybe) the first couple of years I decide to live there. 

They were supposed to have a response yesterday and now my realtor states the HOA is meeting up again to decide. 

We have a lot of spring training baseball here so peak season starts right around Feb 20.March - Ultra peakApril - Slower than March, but a solid Month.May - Decent monthJune - Great monthJuly - Great monthAug - First half is decent then definitely dies down.Sep - Worst monthOct - Second worst monthNov - Bad except ultra peak rates for Thanksgiving.Dec - A little better up until Dec 20 when it is ultra peak.It also really depends on the property and the location. 

@Rick Harmon that was a generous response.

Hi Im new here and this is really in response to @James Wise or whomever can help. 

I think the biggest lesson learned (other than my failure to buy bitcoin instead) was to ensure I had a solid cash flow plan to implement the vision.

This was basically covered by other responses but just to put some numbers on it my QI told me that if the improvements were less than $75k then it made more sense to just take a little bit of the cash as boot and pay the taxes on that small amount of cash.

I got licensed up here with EXP, and started Burlington House Buyers, and we are crushing a bunch of flips here locally as well as some solid cash flowing rentals.