That may seem like a lot, but when you control 5+ units, you would be surprised at how good of service your cleaners and handymen will give you.

That may not sound like a big deal, but the number of stories I've heard about OOS investors  telling agents their pie in the sky plans, and then showing up with only 20k cash and wanting to low ball a 100k C neighborhood listing is surprising to me, but apparently is quite commonplace.  

(1) You purchased a condo.(2) You complete step one knowing that you were going to violate the bylaws and assuming the bylaws weren't going to be enforced by the board.(3) You are surprised when the COA enforces the bylaws.Is that accurate?

Many people are pretty surprised when they find that the FICO scores that are used my mortgage lenders tend to be considerably lower than the ones consumers are getting from say their credit card company.

If they don't know how to manage HOA fees, your investment could be put at risk in the form of surprise special assessments that are a result of bad management.

But governments lack creativity, instead favoring quantifiable and uniformly applied standards, and given our affinity to currency it's no surprise that the default yardstick to measure how much you know would be how much money you have. 

I was surprised to find there doesnt seem to be a go-to spot. 

Surprisingly the units were well cared for and most had new roofs.

What we worried about was a bait-and-switch dynamic, where you start with a low price assuming that everything with the house is perfect, then pretend to be surprised when it isn't.

Every house I’ve purchased has had ‘surprises’.