Someone asked that they other day and that is kind of an eye opener/head scratcher.

However, as I said the "big D" has left me in debt up to my eye balls!

Do you understand the expenses and regulations involved? 

.- OP has not indicated they will involve HOA even though multiple replies suggest doing so.OP asks for advice, but seems to ignore it.  

The ways involve a combination of undefined tech innovation and customer willingness to engage in unconventional transaction methods.There is options now, today, for buyers/sellers to transact real estate for 1% and less of the total transaction $. 

Hello, I’m interested on getting some insight from anyone willingI currently live in Seattle and want to get into REI but the cost out here makes it tough to be able to get involved without capitalI read the out of state investing book and it got me interested in trying somewhere that I don’t have to burn up all my capital to get started1.

It's doing that but maximizing that when the time is right is also what I'm eyeing.  

Do not just allow one person to keep an eye/contact the city.

Now the 9% doesn't seem to be a terrible deal, but then I calculated the risks involved.

However, my future plans with REI involve transitioning my primary income from nursing to REI.