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.

@David Beard : I'm sure you are well versed in the risk associated with ROI, and so am I, I was making the point, badly evidently, that some might look solely at ROI and that this would be wrong, this particular scenario being the perfect example.

In building my case I have asked several times both via phone discussion and emails for my broker to provide me written notes of his correspondence with RC (Matt, Brad, and Tyler) as well as to have his associate provide me with the verifiable references for the RC deals that he had closed.

Was there any cost associated with obtaining the direct mail lead list?

I should note that my father is in no way associated with my 401k.

I appreciate it, I guess I should clarify: it's not a pile of irresponsible spending, it's a pile of production bills associated with my business.