but there's a price tag associated with that, as I'm sure you're familiar with in Ogden.

You can compare that to what you see on your notice of property value to determine whether or not you are being reasonably taxed.Your property manager/board should be actively working with a tax certiorari to fight the values at the association level. 

When you start purchasing short term rentals is there a certain amount of bank accounts that you have for your monthly expenses associated with the property?

Getting a HELOC has closing cost associated with it, and depending where you live, banks will usually only give you 75-90% LTV for a HELOC.

Condo associations can be really rough.

This doesn't work for me as google voice won't let me (or others) input an email address to send new call info to other than an email already associated with the account (a gmail email).I tried creating a filter but this doesnt work.Any thoughts?

Check facebook or the paper for community events or for church functions and civic associations.

I like to associate with positive people.

In other words, I think some people believe there is some sort of cachet associated with using the term in that way...In terms of just pure incorrect spelling, my top pet peeve spot goes to people who use "loose" when they mean "lose"...until the Internet, I never realized this was a common mistake...

You can learn a lot  by joining your local apartment association, and reading their magazine.