Carpentry is often wood related, but most true carpenters are not drywallers.  

I will need to research a bit on the fannie freddie part because if that is indeed true then I defintely will be ruled out already.

A house has come up for sale next door to one of their existing houses, and due to the convenience that would provide from an operational standpoint, they want to open up shop there.  

Is that still true even the roof was torn and impacted the service?

It is very intriguing to me but sounds to good to be true.

Good luck"will ding their credit", is that always true?

I am not a CPA, but I'm fairly sure that is not universally true.

The same is true here.

After 18 months of living on the beach the kids really wanted trees and a true back yard, so we moved a few miles to the bay and converted the VA loan property to a STR. 

Its simply not feasible to run title on everything that you want to bid on if your out west.the reason is you can look at 50 props you like and only 1 maybe 2 will actually go to sale and you have competition on those.. now i am talking TRUE foreclosure sales not Auction after the fact.