Quote from @Dawson Burton: My fiancée and I talked last week and we now plan to start our real estate journey by house I think it sounds like an awesome plan on paper, but maybe more difficult in practicality. 

On top of that, we have super tough STR regulations with waiting lists and high competition from years of established vacation rentals with long lists of repeat clients.

Quote from @Ace Adefemiwa: I build voice AI for healthcare, but a broker friend convinced me her missed-calls problem was identical to what medical practices face.So my company built a voice AI agent that handles after-hours property inquiries, books showings, and only texts her the serious buyers.

Neptune, great to see you starting this journey so early, house hacking in a college town is a smart move, and Eugene is a solid market with steady rental demand.Focus first on learning local rents, vacancy trends, and the student rental rules in Eugene, since college towns often have extra regulations.

YOU if YOU is a seasoned investor who has been in and out of deals, knows a market and the RE like the back of his hand and through years and years and years of networking found a Private Money source that believes in their knowledge and experience enough to back their purchases and rehabs at 100%.It's like saying you wanna play in the NBA and then ask how do you start as the shooting guard for OKC, well the guy who is in that position has been playing basketball since he can walk, put in all the work, went to Div 1 school, got drafted, put his time in in practice, worked his way up the depth chart, worked on his game every off season and now he's the best in the league.  

To be clear, my firm does not practice in this area of law, but for a few thousand you could at minimum ensure that the budget doesn't go up, and if your attorney finds true malfeasance, you could find a windfall and turn the area around. 

Try suggesting to the HOA management company and/or the board to create a rules and regulations regarding this. 

Quote from @Luke Mertz: @Jaycee Greene I'm not actually going to buy it I'm just practicing deal finding for when I can actually pursue something @Luke Mertz I suggest coming back to the Forum then...I suspect very few people will be interested in "helping you practice".

STR, remember that STRs can offer higher returns but also come with higher risk, more management headaches, and are increasingly regulated in many cities.

@Alex Quinlan I'll try to answer this for you; "How do you actually practice analyzing properties if everything on-market has probably already been passed on by experienced investors?"