(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’.

You don’t want to be surprised later that they won’t refi the type of property you bring to them.  

My experience is that there are no good surprises to be found in the inside of these properties.