SInce this property is not owner occupied, you need to brush up on the SAFE Act as well to do an installment deal.

And unless they/you can why that event will impact re prices, there's no information to act on.Fight recency bias.Personal suggestion (from someone who's putting plenty of new $$ in play locally, FWIW): Very broad brush, but if you're going to house hack one of those duplexes in that price range right now, make sure it could generate at least $3800/m in income ... total. 

Doesn't matter if I'm in the car, while brushing my teeth, and when I'm walking down the street I always take the opportunity to get in the real estate headspace.

You need to either brush up on the legal way to evict a squatter or to contact a local attorney who handles evictions. 

As to warranties, what happens when the builder decides to brush off the issues raised on the punchlist?  

It might be a good time to brush up on our lease option and sub2 skills.  

Here’s the 10000 ft brush and we can pm to go deeper1.

The one I spotted today appears to require quite alot of work from the outside, I've seen it before but it wasn't for sale and the brush and over grown trees hide the house pretty well.

When I blew the lines out, enough water came out that I could've made a pot of coffee, brushed my teeth, and shaved.

Seems a bit of a broad-brush approach to write off the entire zip code, especially when you can't put easily categorize the types of homes in the area.