I get nervous when values get like this...Is the area legitimately growing at a pace that the desired housing supply can't keep up?

There was a commercial property purchased legitimately from Lands Available and posted on Ioopnet .

I know the owner personally and they are willing to finance a residential flip if I can come up with a legitimate business model.

The legitimate folks have no problem engaging in our verification process, the fakers usually don't even try to pursue it. 

To househack legally, you need to legitimately live there, not airbnb.

He will be nit-picky about the work that the first contractor completes and might point out minor flaws (some might be legitimate, and some might be no issue), and he'll offer his services (maybe at a discount) to have those flaws fixed.What comes to mind is inviting a vacuum salesman over to take a look at a vacuum you just bought from another salesman.

Your concerns are legitimate.

Relatively small cost/time investment, and then you the ability to offer legitimate listing services to all your clients.  

Regarding the fraudulent inducement issue: I would hope anyone who signs a contract to buy real estate has at least one or more legitimate methods in mind to handle the property and at least one or more ways to finance the property purchase. 

Any insight on if it's a big selling thing, or legitimate?