Ideally I'd love to get a one-on-one with someone in the wholesaling game(that's the best way I learn).

Do the long game and figure out your WHY.  

Lower standards of enforcement of standards are better suited to rental units.Home owners generally do not like renters as they lower the standards of a community so you really need to read the specifics of the individual HOA and inquire into the enforcement policies.

Once you have a small game plan or big game plan, start reading and absorbing all you can on the topic.

So you know they have skin in the game and don't have any incentive to skimp out on the due diligence (which appears to be the case on some other platforms).

I'm using the wholesale part of the business to learn the game.

Do your homework and get in the game.

If the answer is no, then you are doing the same thing as buying something on sale, because it's on sale, even though you wouldn't have bought it if it wasn't on sale.To use a Poker Expression, "The name of the game, is to stay in the game".  

It makes it more like a game now.  

@Tracy Royce  in this business if your doing any volume your dealing with one or two of these a year.Always tough.. although what I finanally learned is that it rarely gets better you just need to bite the bullit and follow the letter of the law.NOt sure about protected class. but I have one right now in my market that could go that way.it took me 18 months to close and it was my first suit for specific performance in 42 years in the business... phase two is to move this person out.its a city lot the house was so bad I paid over 60k in city code enforcement fines to close escrow. that's just the fines folks..