In fact, there are 1-2 million foreclosed homes for sale right now, and the Wall Street Journal reports that another 7.5 million U.S. homeowners are either behind on their payments, or in the foreclosure process.Thanks to tighter lending standards, and a depressed buying market, you need plenty of cash, and nerves of steel, to get into house flipping.

Those older house depressed areas are generally the last to rise in the cycle and the first to fall in value.

TV News is so depressing. 

I a looking at a couple markets in western Maryland that are depressed areas or losing many jobs in the past 10-20 years when 2-3 large companies left.

Depressed area.

There're so many factors pushing on PR for a positive future, and many that have slammed the island recently to depress the current market. 

And I am talking about a lot of money out of my pocket, and I did it to help him because he was having problem and he was depressed and I didn't want to be part of it.

Can an investor somehow pay the owner of a depressed property a fee to have them quitclaim the property over to them in an effort to keep the sales history at market value and to not negatively impact the value of comps?

I invest in a very very similar sleepy depressed town, so your answer somewhat applies to me as well..  

I guess some people thought you wanted stories from the American Association of Psychological Disorders.