Wondering how popular 203k is relative to your standard residential mortgage + separate rehab loan? 

As another datapoint, I frequently check the web traffic of the big players as a proxy of popularity, investor views, etc.  

That location is probably one of the best places to be in America to be an investor.Locate in a market that is convenient for you and is popular as far as sales go.  

Affordable - apartment units, which are the most popular purchases for foreign buyers are approx.

This map is a bit outdated:  http://www.akc.org/akc-dog-lovers/bsl-popularity-on-decline-nationwide/If you want to change any laws on HOAs it always takes a vast majority (in my primary residency case it is 75% and in my rental place it is 61%). 

I can see getting a substantial discount there, though even that may be limited somewhat now, since rehabbing/flipping properties seems to have become rather popular since the last bubble / HGTV, so I suppose there's competition there, too.

http://money.cnn.com/2016/01/04/real_estate/oregon...And still I can find 1% plus along the coast (mls). Hey,  compared to what is out there nationwide ( many burned out cities with bad weather)  this looks very attra...

@Brian Terry SmartMove is another popular on on BP:https://www.mysmartmove.com/

I would also tend to look at property is close to downtown and/or is popular.  

Good as it looks, I reckon the main reason they're not more popular is that even if they'd built a traditional home on the same site, costing $100k more, it may easily have resulted in a justified $899k asking price ie. the same profit as doing it the container-way.Makes more sense for you if you're also the end buyer/occupier, saving a genuine $100k!