Patience is so necessary in this game.

Is so, what has your experience been?

What do your contribute to society that is so special that you deserve to make enough money to buy in the popular areas?

Also, as far as I can tell, even if the person who damages the garage door is someone related to me, the association should still be responsible to replace it, but, they do reserve the right to charge me for the cost.

I forget the mechanics of exactly how it works as far as the airline reimbursing you and stuff like that but could be a really interesting niche for someone in the business.

This is so frustrating as I am doing my best to help her but she won't return my calls or email. 

As far as I understood there are certain contingencies that you can add to your contract to have access to the property, such as adding a clause in the contract that states you need access to the property for contractors and inspectors via a lock box, and certain contingencies that can delay the deposit, such as a hard proof of funds (like a bank statement) & deposit after a 10-day inspection period.

In this case, it is.  So

Now if this were a single family residence and you had this basement suitable for renting out, it might be considered trying to convert a 'secondary suit' into something the city doesn't want (as far as zoning in concerned). 

Syndication is so much better, with experts doing all the work (bird dogging, taking loans, managing the asset, etc) and taking only 20-30% of the profits.