Never ever do anything by e mail, voice mail, in writing or any other form that can be entered into evidence in court.

I want to start investing in real estate ASAP but I don't want to enter the market during the peak and have to deal with a recession.

When I have a tenant who is trying to avoid me, I post a legal "notice to enter" to do a maintenance inspection.

Most people think it is the best way to enter real estate investing. 

As I enter the final stages of preparation, my initial plan was to just create an LLC right out of the gate anyway.

I pull expired listings and enter the property address into the websites search.

I wanted to open up Oregon for them and do vertical but they were not ready. talk to @Bryan Hancock  I think he raised vertical  ,, I get mine from banks.. so never needed to go that route.. however... there is a HUGE market out there for the first CF who enters the space for well positioned and qualified builder developers

Info like this should all be researched/confirmed during attorney review when you are under contract or prior if said info would be released by the HOA (maybe as a condition prior to entering a contract). 

Then I started law school at Loyola in New Orleans and entered the business world.

The first issue we noticed was a strong smoke smell in the common hallway upon entering our building that trickles into our apartment as well.